Configure the Automated Forms Conversion service (AFCS) about-this-help

Log in to Admin Console. Use Adobe ID of administrator provisioned to use Automated Forms Conversion service (AFCS) to login.

Click the Automated Forms Conversion option.

Click New Profile in the Products tab.

Specify Name, Display Name, and Description for the profile. Click Done. For example, create a profile as AFC_Flamingo_Test_Dev.

Add developer to the profile. To add the developers:

1. In the Admin Console, navigate to the Overview tab.
2. Click Assign Developers on the required product card.
3. Enter the developers email address and, optionally, first and last names.
4. Select product profiles. Click Save.

Log in to your AEM Forms author instance as an AEM administrator. Use your local AEM credentials to login.

Click Adobe Experience Manager > Tools > Security > Users.

Select a user designated to run the conversion service and click Properties. The Edit User Settings page opens.

Specify an email address in the Email field and click Save. The emails are sent to specified email address on successful completion or failure of the conversion.

Click the Groups tab. In the select group tab, type and select the forms-users group.

Click Save & Close. The user is now a member of the forms-users group.

Log in to https://developer.adobe.com/console . Use your Adobe ID, developer account that your administrator has provisioned to login to Adobe I/O console to login.

Select your organization from the top-right corner. If you do not know your organization, contact your administrator.

Click Create new project. A screen to get started with your new project appears.

Click Add API. A screen with list of all the APIs enabled for your account appears.

Select Automated Forms Conversion service and click Next. A screen to configure the API appears.

Select OAuth Server-to-Server authentication method.

Specify the Credential Name and click Next.

Select a Product Profile. For example, select a profile as AFC_Flamingo_Test_Dev.

Click Save configured API.

Click OAuth Server-to-Server to view the API Key, Client Secret, and other information required to connect your AEM instance to Automated Forms Conversion service (AFCS).

The information on the page is used to create IMS configuration, as explained in the Create IMS Technical Configuration on AEM Author Instance section.

Log in to your AEM Forms author instance. Navigate to Tools> Security > Adobe IMS Configurations.

Click Create.

The Adobe IMS Technical Account Configuration page appears.

Select Automated Forms Conversion Service in Cloud Solution.

Specify the below:

• Title: Specify a title.

• Authorization Server: https://ims-na1.adobelogin.com

• Retrieve the following from the Configure the service APIs on Adobe Developer Console section:

  • Client Id: Copy and paste API Key(Client ID).
  • Client Secret: Copy and paste Client Secret.
  • Scope: Copy and paste Scopes.
  • Org ID: Copy and paste Technical Account ID.

  

Click Save. The Adobe IMS configuration is created.

Select the Adobe IMS configuration and click Check Health. A dialog box appears.

A Check dialog box appears.

Click Check.

On successful connection, the Token retrieved successfully message appears.

Click Close.

On your AEM Forms instance, click Adobe Experience Manager > Tools> Cloud Services > Automate Forms Conversion Configuration.

Select the Global folder and click Create.
The page to Create Automated Forms Conversion Configuration appears. The configuration is created in the Global folder. You can also create the configuration in a different folder that exists or create a folder for your configurations.

On the Create Automated Forms Conversion Configuration page, specify value for the following fields and click Next.

In the Advanced tab of the Create Automated Forms Conversion Configuration page, specify value for the following field:

• When the source is an XFA-based form with extension .XDP, then the output DOR retains the XFA layout, else the conversion service uses an out-of-the-box template to generate DOR for other XFA-based forms.
• When an XFA form is submitted, submit data of the form is saved as an XML element or an attribute. For example, <Amount currency="USD"> 10.00 </Amount>. The currency is saved as an attribute and currency amount, 10.00 is saved as an element. Submit data of an adaptive form does not have attributes, it has only elements. So, when an XFA-based form is converted to adaptive form, the adaptive form submit data contains an element for each such attribute. For example,

   {
      "Type": "Principal",

      "Amount": "10.00",

      "currency": "USD"
   }

Click Create. The cloud configuration is created. Your AEM Forms instance is ready to start converting legacy forms to Adaptive Forms.