Previous Documentation Updates

AEM supports the upload, delivery, and interactive preview of 3D assets as part of the authoring process. The interactive 3D viewer is available from the asset details page in AEM. The viewer includes, among other things, a collection of interactive camera controls that let you orbit, zoom, and pan the 3D asset.

See Previewing 3D assets.

Due to security changes within the Adobe Analytics API, it is no longer possible to use the version of Activity Map that is included within AEM. See ActivityMap plugin provided by Adobe Analytics should now be used.

Cloud Manager Version 2019.10.0 was released on October 10, 2019.

Refer to Release Notes for 2019.10.0 that highlights What's New and updates on deployment steps and maven project version handling.

AEM Screens released AEM 6.4.6 Feature Pack 6 and AEM 6.5.2 Feature Pack 2.

Refer to Release Notes for Feature Pack 201909 for more details.

AEM Forms support for Oracle 18c database driver added.

Platform Matrix: https://helpx.adobe.com/content/dam/help/en/experience-manager/6-5/forms/pdf/prepare-install-single-server.pdf

https://helpx.adobe.com/content/dam/help/en/experience-manager/6-5/forms/pdf/install-cluster-websphere.pdf

https://helpx.adobe.com/content/dam/help/en/experience-manager/6-5/forms/pdf/install-single-server-websphere.pdf

This new guide not only provides a comprehensive insight and practical advice to imagine, design and bring intentional customer experiences into your digital signage implementation but also guides you how to create a positive impact on your business using some of the best practices followed while deploying a digital signage project in AEM Screens.

Refer to Best Practices Guide for AEM Screens Projects for more details.

You can now reprocess assets in a folder that already has an existing processing profile that you later changed.

See Reprocessing assets in a folder.

The Dynamic Media Viewers extension for Adobe Launch, along with the release of Dynamic Media Viewers 5.13, lets customers of Dynamic Media, Adobe Analytics, and Adobe Launch use events and data specific for the Dynamic Media Viewers in their Adobe Launch configuration.

See Integrating Dynamic Media Viewers with Adobe Analytics and Adobe Launch.

Added a package in the create multifield component.

Created a troubleshooting FAQ based on customer feedback.

New 360/VR Video documentation.

Reference Materials are available including:

• Adobe AEM 6.5.0 API
• Granite UI (touch-enabled UI) API Documentation
• Coral UI Guide
• Widgets API (Classic UI) Documentation
• UI Test Framework
• JavaScript API Reference
• Single Page Applications JavaScript API References

Implementing Windows 10 Player for more information.

Due to security changes within the Adobe Analytics API, it is no longer possible to use the version of Activity Map that is included within AEM. See ActivityMap plugin provided by Adobe Analytics should now be used.

You can now reprocess assets in a folder that already has an existing processing profile that you later changed.

See Reprocessing assets in a folder.

AEM 6.4 documentation is published from GitHub now. Our readers can not just rate pages and log issues, but even collaborate and contribute to the docs. To contribute, read the code of conduct and contributor guide at https://github.com/AdobeDocs/experience-manager-64.en.

All your updates are available via your pull requests for AEM documentation and product teams to monitor for approval and publishing.

For highly customized omnichannel experiences, a headless implementation of AEM can be a preferred alternative to connect with custom front-end applications.

The new Headless Experience Management guide is a central location for all AEM headless topics including content services, SPA, content fragments, experience fragments, and HTTP APIs.

The following AEM documentation sets have been migrated to a new collaborative documentation platform.

• Core Components
• Dispatcher
• HTL
• Cloud Manager
• Adobe Experience Cloud Library

The content is the same with some improvement in the presentation. More exciting is the new ability to contribute your documentation suggestions via pull requests or issues over GitHub via the Edit this page and Log an issue links on every page. We welcome your input!

Image Serving 6.6.1 and Image Rendering 6.6.1 is now available for Dynamic Media on AEM and Dynamic Media Classic (Scene7).

See About this release.

Viewers 5.10.1 is now available for Dynamic Media on AEM and Dynamic Media Classic (Scene7).

See Viewer Release Notes (5.10.1).

You can now configure video reporting across multiple installations of AEM Dynamic Media - Hybrid mode.

See Configuring Video Reporting.

Additional SPA content is now available giving an walkthrough of how a SPA works within the AEM SPA editor, the architecture of SPAs in AEM, and examples of adapting your own component to work with an AEM SPA.

• SPA Walkthrough
• SPA Architecture
• Implementing a React Component for SPA

Reference Materials are available including:

• Adobe AEM 6.4.0 API
• API Differences
• Granite UI (Touch-Optimized UI) API Documentation
• Coral UI Guide
• Widgets API (Classic UI) Documentation
• UI Test Framework
• JavaScript API Reference
• Editor Core JavaScript API Reference
• Single Page Applications JavaScript API References

Single page applications (SPAs) can offer compelling experiences for website users. Developers want to be able to build sites using SPA frameworks and authors want to seamlessly edit content within AEM for a site built as a SPA.

The SPA authoring feature (currently a technology preview) offers a comprehensive solution for supporting SPAs within AEM.

Adobe Experience Manager 6.4 is an upgrade release to the Adobe Experience Manager 6.3 code base. It provides new and enhanced functionality, key customer fixes, high priority customer enhancements and general bug fixes oriented toward product stabilization. It also includes all Adobe Experience Manager 6.3 feature pack, hot fix, and service pack releases.

See the following:

• AEM 6.4 documentation
• Release Notes

Published one-stop hub for all available AEM releases and updates. It links out to the latest cumulative fix packs, service packs, feature packs, and hotfixes for AEM 6.4, AEM 6.3, AEM 6.2, and AEM 6.1.

See AEM releases and updates.

Due to security changes within the Adobe Analytics API, it is no longer possible to use the version of Activity Map that is included within AEM. See ActivityMap plugin provided by Adobe Analytics should now be used.

Added a new section named "Running Online Revision Cleanup After Offline Revision Cleanup" that details what happens when online revision cleanup is executed after offline revision cleanup.

See Revision Cleanup.

Added information to configure and use PhantomJS for converting HTML files to PDF using PDF Generator.

See Installing and configuring PDF Generator.

Added information to configure and integrate on-premises Microsoft Dynamics with AEM Forms using form data model.

See Microsoft Dynamics OData Configuration.

Frequently asked questions regarding the new feature smart imaging in Dynamic Media Classic (Scene7)/Dynamic Media.

See Smart Imaging.

Documented AEM Repo Tool, which is available for simplified, FTP-like transfers between the filesystem and AEM with minimal dependencies. It is a simple bash script and integratable into IntelliJ and Eclipse.

AEM Repo Tool

Added information about handling adaptive form rules that are not migrated automatically using the migration utility.

Migrate AEM Forms assets and documents

When the name of the host machine is changed, the JBoss for Adobe Experience Manager Forms service running on the host machine fails to start. To resolve the issue, you must reset the Windows Registry key and add the name of the current host to the registry.

JBoss for Adobe Experience Manager Forms service fails to start when the host name is changed

This feature pack provides new automation and delivery capabilities for Dynamic Media customers and is an upgrade for Dynamic Media Classic (Scene7) customers to transition to Dynamic Media.

Configuring Dynamic Media with Feature Pack 14410 and 18912

While most capabilities are present in the touch-enabled UI, there are features that are not yet complete and will be added in future releases.The following page shows the current status of the capabilities as implemented in AEM 6.3.

Touch UI Feature Status

Adaptive Forms Configuration Service allows you to limit rule editor access to users based on their role or function.

Grant rule editor access to select user groups

You can exclude AEM Forms files and folders from on-access virus scan application to improve the performance of your Forms server.

Performance tuning of AEM Forms server

Form developers can embed a fully functional adaptive forms in an external web page hosted outside AEM. It helps end users fill a form without leaving the web page and remain in context of other elements on the page.

Embed adaptive form in external web page

AEM Forms provides a configuration package that you can use to quickly integrate Dynamics 365 with Forms. The package includes a cloud service configuration and a form data model with preconfigured Dynamics 365 entities and services.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 OData Configuration

Fixed several issues and refreshed installation and upgrade documentation for AEM 6.3 Forms JEE.

Install or upgrade AEM Forms on JEE

When a component in a web page is rendered, an HTML element can be generated, wrapping the rendered component within itself. For developers, AEM offers clear and simple logic controlling the decoration tags that wrap included components.

Decoration Tag

The editor in the touch-optimized UI makes use of overlays to interact with content confined in an iframe. This interaction creates some limitations in both usage of the editor and also for developers.

Editor Limitations

New AEM Screens 6.3 documentation is available. Alternatively, a Quickstart is available that lets a user create a Digital Signage Experience in 5 minutes. See the following resources:

Quickstart

Administering Content for AEM Screens

New developer 6.3 getting started tutorial is available based on the latest AEM technologies:

• HTL
• Sling Models
• Touch UI
• Core Components
• Editable Templates

Find the tutorial here.

See:

• AEM and Creative Cloud Integration Best Practices
• AEM Desktop App Best Practices
• AEM to Creative Cloud Folder Sharing Best Practices

A new commerce integration is available:

• Deploying eCommerce with Digital River
• Administering Digital River

Reference Material is available including:

• Adobe AEM 6.3.0 API
• API Differences
• Granite UI (Touch-Optimized UI) API Documentation
• Coral UI Guide
• Widgets API (Classic UI) Documentation
• UI Test Framework
• JavaScript API Reference
• Editor Core JavaScript API Reference

Adobe is excited to announce the availability of HTTP/2 delivery of content with the overall benefit of improved performance.

See HTTP2 Delivery of Content FAQ.

If you are integrating with Scene 7, it is a best practice to exclude the master video (F4V, MP3, or OGG) from any adaptive video set that you create.

See Excluding master videos from adaptive video sets.

Secure video delivery is now available using the VideoPlayer.ssl configuration attribute in your embed code or URL path.

See How to deliver secure video in Embedding the Video or Image Viewer on a Web Page.

See How to deliver secure video in Linking URLs to your Web Application.

Best Practices added for Enterprise DevOps, the processes, methods and communication required to ease the deployment of your software across the various environments.

Communities Subscriptions

Improved the documentation for Developing and Extending AEM Workflows, including:

• Transient Workflows
• Creating Workflow Models
• Extending Workflow Functionality
• Workflow Step Reference
• Workflow Process Reference

For AEM Communities, the Groups console provides access to creating community groups when a community site's structure includes the groups function. Community groups (also known as sub-communities) may be created from the publish environment as well as the author environment.

• The new location of the IdP certificate in the AEM Truststore
• The new location of the Service Provider key and certificate chain in the AEM Keystore

• New section: Live Copies - Composition
• Improvements to: Extending MSM - Overview of the Java API

• Starting Workflows
• Administering Workflow Instances
• Managing Access to Workflows

Improved Authoring documentation for AEM Workflows, including:

• Applying Workflows to Pages
• Participating in Workflows

• AEM 3D Assets release notes
• Installing and configuring AEM 3D Assets
• Working with 3D assets

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Brand Portal 6.4.5 is a feature release that focuses on providing Brand Portal users (external agencies/teams) with the ability to upload content to Brand Portal and publish to AEM Assets, without needing access to the author environment. This feature is called Asset Sourcing in Brand Portal.

The documentation covers the following major updates:

• Feature video added demonstrating the overall workflow of Asset Sourcing in Brand Portal.
  
• New video added on How to Configure Asset Sourcing in AEM Assets.
• New video added on How to Configure Contribution folder in AEM Assets.
• Frequently Asked Questions in Asset Sourcing.

Brand Portal 6.4.5 is a feature release that focuses on providing Brand Portal users (external agencies/teams) with the ability to upload content to Brand Portal and publish to AEM Assets, without needing access to the author environment. This feature is called Asset Sourcing in Brand Portal.

The documentation covers the following major updates:

• Feature video added demonstrating the overall workflow of Asset Sourcing in Brand Portal.
• Configure Contribution folder in AEM Assets
• Using Asset Sourcing to publish contribution folder's assets to AEM Assets

• Frequently Asked Questions in Brand Portal Asset Sourcing.
• Updated documentation for Asset Sourcing in Brand Portal.

Documentation on how to configure Asset Sourcing in AEM Assets and and related articles.

See, Asset Sourcing in Brand Portal for the feature documentation.

Brand Portal 6.4.5 is a feature release that focuses on providing Brand Portal users (external agencies/teams) with the ability to upload content to Brand Portal and publish to AEM Assets, without needing access to the author environment. This feature is called Asset Sourcing in Brand Portal.

What's New in Brand Portal 6.4.5

Hotfixes released in BP 6.4.4.7 and BP 6.4.4.6

• BP 6.4.4.7 - Optimize User Sync process to prevent concurrent execution.
• BP 6.4.4.6 - Performance optimizations for download report generation.

Brand Portal release notes

Brand Portal 6.4.4 release focuses on enhancements to text search and top customer requests.

The documentation covers the following major updates:

• Property predicate in Search filter now supports searching for partial phrases.
• Property predicate in Search Filter now supports wild card (*) searches.

Brand Portal release notes

Brand Portal user guide

Brand Portal 6.4.3 release includes enhancements to enrich the customer experience and give greater control to organizations.

The documentation covers the following major updates:

• Organizations can request for one alternate URL apart from existing Brand Portal access URL, by having an alternate prefix in the URL.
• New configuration to enable folder hierarchy for non-admin users.
• Preview, play and download the dynamic media renditions.
• Scheduled publishing from AEM Author instance to Brand Portal.
• New configuration to set up Dynamic Media image server settings.
• Path Browser predicate introduced in Search Form.
• Download via email link expires after 45 days.

Brand Portal release notes

Brand Portal user guide

Brand Portal 6.4.2 release brings in capabilities to address asset distribution needs of organizations and help them reach out to a large number of users distributed globally through Guest access functionality and optimize user experience with accelerated downloads. This release provides greater control to organizations through new configurations for administrators.

The documentation covers the following major updates:

• Guest access to Brand Portal.
• Option to accelerate the download of asset files from Brand Portal and shared links.
• New User Logins report to track the login activity.
• Restrict access to original renditions (.psd, .indd), to specific user groups while allowing them to access low-resolution renditions.
• Folder hierarchy information on folder cards in card view for non-admin users (Guest user, Viewer, Editor), to help differentiate the shared child folders with similar names belonging to different parent folders.
  
• Path column in list view to indicate the hierarchy in which a particular asset resides.
• Support for non-case sensitive search for property predicate and multi-value property predicate in search Filter.
• Six new configurations to give greater control to organizations and enable them to cater to individual business needs.
• The UI for configuring oAuth integrations is now hosted in https://legacy-oauth.cloud.adobe.io/.

Brand Portal user guide

AEM Assets Brand Portal 6.4.1 release was a platform upgrade release that included several new features and vital enhancements such as browsing, searching, and performance enhancements for fulfilling customer experiences. The documentation covers the following major updates:

• Content tree-based navigation to quickly navigate an asset hierarchy.
• View Settings to customize Card View and List View.
• Optimized download, search, and browsing performance.
• Enhanced lazy loading experience while browsing assets.
• New Link Share report introduced.
• Reporting interface made more intuitive with granular capabilities to customize reports.
• Asset search enhanced with accurate time stamp filters, new Access type filter, new search options in File Type search filter, and capability to navigate back to search results.

Brand Portal user guide

AEM Assets Brand Portal 6.3.1 release introduces the new Brand Portal user interface and enhanced documentation experience. The documentation experience covers the following major updates:

• Improved navigation, sorting, search, and download experience
• Improved login screen wallpaper controls
• Complete metadata schema publishing from Assets to Brand Portal
• Enhanced reporting capabilities—assets downloaded, expired, and published
• Newly introduced DRM capabilities—assets expiration controls and notification
• New what’s new article to learn about the new and updated features
• New version-agnostic Brand Portal user guide independent of AEM Assets User Guide

• Release Notes
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