Best Practices
Last update: May 3, 2023
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Best practices describe how to develop, administer, or use AEM in the most efficient and most effective way possible. This growing list of topics includes a variety of areas in AEM.
The following areas have documentation available concerning best practices:
For best practices on authoring, deploying and maintaining, or developing, see one of the following:
Specific documents are described and linked to in the tables that follow.
Assets
Best practices around Assets, including the Dynamic Media capability and Dynamic Media Classic integration, are described in the following topics:
Best practices in different areas around Assets to enhance system stability and performance under load | Best Practices for Assets | Includes links to best practices guides in different areas around Assets. After reviewing them, you will have the knowledge and tools to build and manage an enterprise asset management system. |
How to organize your content (folder hierarchy) | Best practices for file management | Much of processing profiles is folder based as video, metadata, image processing are always applied to folders. This best practice document describes how to define and set up your folder hierarchy as the hierarchy has a significant impact on how content is processed. |
Integrating Dynamic Media Classic and AEM | Best practices for integrating Dynamic Media Classic with AEM | Describes when to turn on polling importer, how to test drive your integration, and when to use the content browser versus a direct upload to Assets. |
Image preset options | Understanding image presets and image preset best practices | As part of the documentation on Managing Image presets, these topics describe what image presets are and best practices around selecting image preset options. |
Dynamic Media versus direct integration with Dynamic Media Classic | Dynamic Media Classic/AEM integration versus Dynamic Media | Describes when it is best to use the Dynamic Media solution, when to integrate S7 with AEM, or when to use both. |
Sites
Managing and authoring your website content has some best practices outlined as follows:
GDPR Compliance | AEM Sites GDPR Compliance | The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation on data privacy rights takes effect as of May 2018. AEM Sites is compliant with GDPR. This page guides customers through the procedures to handle GDPR requests in AEM Sites. It describes the location of private data stored, and how to remove them manually or with code. |
Define the default UI for your instance. | Configuring the default UI for your instance | AEM has two UIs: touch-optimized and classic. This section details how to define the default UI for your instance. |
Multi-Site Management | MSM Best Practices | Best practices for using MSM to automate content deployment. |
Translating content | Translation Best Practices | Best practices for planning and implementing your multilanguage site. |
User administration | Permissions and privileges best practices | Describes best practices when working with permissions and privileges |
Workflows | Workflow Best Practices - Configuration | Workflows enable you to automate Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) activities and can represent a large amount of the processing that occurs in an AEM environment, so it is highly recommended to plan and configure your workflows implementations carefully. |
Experience Manager
- Administering User Guide overview
- Sites Features
- Website Administration
- Reusing Content: Multi Site Manager and Live Copy
- Live Copy Overview Console
- Configuring Live Copy Synchronization
- Creating and Synchronizing Live Copies
- MSM Rollout Conflicts
- MSM Best Practices
- Translating Content for Multilingual Sites
- Managing Translation Projects
- Identifying Content to Translate
- Preparing Content for Translation
- Creating a Language Root Using the Classic UI
- Connecting to Microsoft Translator
- Configuring the Translation Integration Framework
- Language Copy Wizard
- Translation Enhancements
- Translation Best Practices
- Configurations and the Configuration Browser
- AEM FAQs
- Operations
- Dashboards
- Operations Dashboard
- Backup and Restore
- Data Store Garbage Collection
- Monitoring Server Resources Using the JMX Console
- Working with Logs
- Configure the Rich Text Editor
- Configure the Video component
- The Bulk Editor
- Configuring Email Notification
- Configuring RTE for Producing Accessible Sites
- The Link Checker
- Troubleshooting AEM
- Audit Log Maintenance in AEM 6
- Editor
- Managing Access to Workflows
- Using cURL with AEM
- Configuring Undo for Page Editing
- Proxy Server Tool (proxy.jar)
- Configuring for AEM Apps
- Administering Workflows
- Configuring Search Forms
- Tools Consoles
- Reporting
- Administering Workflow Instances
- Configuring Layout Container and Layout Mode
- Enabling Access to Classic UI
- Starting Workflows
- Configure the Rich Text Editor plug-ins
- Admin Consoles
- Security
- User Administration and Security
- User, Group and Access Rights Administration
- Security Checklist
- OWASP Top 10
- Running AEM in Production Ready Mode
- Identity Management
- Adobe IMS Authentication and Admin Console Support for AEM Managed Services
- Creating a Closed User Group
- Mitigating serialization issues in AEM
- User Synchronization
- Encapsulated Token Support
- Single Sign On
- How to Audit User Management Operations in AEM
- SSL By Default
- SAML 2.0 Authentication Handler
- Closed User Groups in AEM
- Granite Operations - User and Group Administration
- Enabling CRXDE Lite in AEM
- Configuring LDAP with AEM 6
- Configure the Admin Password on Installation
- Service Users in AEM
- Encryption Support for Configuration Properties
- Handling GDPR Requests for the AEM Foundation
- Content Disposition Filter
- Personalization
- eCommerce
- Integration
- Integrating with Third-Party Services
- Integrating with Salesforce
- Integrating with Adobe Target
- Integrating with Adobe Analytics
- Connecting to Adobe Analytics and Creating Frameworks
- Configuring Link Tracking for Adobe Analytics
- Mapping Component Data with Adobe Analytics Properties
- Configuring Video Tracking for Adobe Analytics
- HTTP2 Delivery of Content FAQ
- Troubleshooting your Adobe Campaign Integration
- SharePoint Connector Licenses, Copyright Notices, and Disclaimers
- SharePoint Connector
- DHTML Viewer End-of-Life FAQs
- Integrating with Adobe Campaign Classic
- Related Community Articles
- Integrating with Adobe Campaign Standard
- Flash Viewers End-of-Life Notice
- Integrating with Adobe Creative Cloud
- Integrating with Adobe Dynamic Tag Management
- Opting Into Adobe Analytics and Adobe Target
- AEM Portals and Portlets
- Integrating with Dynamic Media Classic
- Troubleshooting Integration Issues
- Integrating with BrightEdge Content Optimizer
- Best Practices for Email Templates
- Catalog Producer
- Integrating with Silverpop Engage
- Integrating with Adobe Campaign
- Integrating with ExactTarget
- Analytics with External Providers
- Integrating with the Adobe Marketing Cloud
- Manually Configuring the Integration with Adobe Target
- Prerequisites for Integrating with Adobe Target
- Adobe Classifications
- Solutions Integration
- Target Integration with Experience Fragments
- Best Practices
- Content Management