Creating Content Fragments Headless Quick Start Guide
Learn how to use AEM’s Content Fragments to design, create, curate, and use page-independent content for headless delivery.
What are Content Fragments?
Now that you have created an assets folder where you can store your Content Fragments, you can now create the fragments!
Content Fragments let you design, create, curate, and publish page-independent content. They let you prepare content ready for use in multiple locations and over multiple channels.
Content fragments contain structured content and can be delivered in JSON format.
How to Create a Content Fragment
Content authors will create any number of Content Fragments to represent the content that they create. This will be their main task in AEM. For the purposes of this getting started guide, we will only need to create one.
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Log into AEM and from the main menu select Navigation > Assets.
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Navigate to the folder you created previously.
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Click Create > Content Fragment.
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The creation of a Content Fragment is presented as a wizard in two steps. First select which model you wish to use to create your content fragment and click Next.
- The models available depend on the Cloud Configuration you defined for the assets folder in which you are creating the Content Fragment.
- If you receive the message
We could not find any models, check the configuration of your assets folder.
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Provide a Title, Description, and Tags as necessary and click Create.
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Click Open in the confirmation window.
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Provide the details of the Content Fragment in the Content Fragment Editor.
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Click Save or Save & close.
Content Fragments can reference other Content Fragments, allowing for a nested content structure if necessary.
Content Fragments can also reference other assets in AEM. These assets need to be stored in AEM before creating a referencing Content Fragment.
Next Steps
Now that you have created a Content Fragment, you can move on to the final part of the getting started guide and create API requests to access and deliver content fragments.
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