Deploy Content Hub deploy-content-hub

Deploy Content Hub

Content Hub is available as part of Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service for democratizing access to on-brand content for organizations and their business partners.

The assets that are marked Approved on Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service are available for asset distribution on Content Hub.

This article provides an end-to-end workflow to provide Content Hub access to users including the variations of privileges based on their needs.

The variations of privileges on Content Hub include:

Step 1: Enable Content Hub for Experience Manager Assets using Cloud Manager enable-content-hub

To access the Content Hub portal, administrators first need to enable Content Hub for Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service using Cloud Manager. Execute the following steps:

  1. Log on to Cloud Manager. Ensure that you select the right organization while logging in. The Cloud Manager lists all your programs.

  2. Navigate to Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service program, click the More options icon (…) and select Edit Program.

    Edit program in Cloud Manager

  3. On the Edit Program dialog, select the Solutions & Add-ons tab.

  4. Expand Assets and select Content Hub.
    Select Content Hub in Cloud Manager

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    If Update is not enabled for you after selecting Content Hub, ensure that you have specified Go-Live settings for the program.
  5. Click Update.

Content Hub is now enabled for Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service.

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You can access and use Content Hub with up to 250 Content Hub users. Please contact your Adobe representative if you have additional questions.

If you are new to Experience Manager Assets, click Add Program and then provide program details (Program Name, set up for Production) and click Continue. You can then select Assets and Content Hub in the Solutions & Add-ons tab.

Content Hub instance and product profile on Admin Console content-hub-instance-product-profile

After enabling Content Hub for Assets as a Cloud Service using Cloud Manager, there is a new instance created within AEM Assets as a Cloud Service on Admin Console with contenthub as the suffix:

New instance for Content Hub

Note that there is no author or publish in the instance name for Content Hub.

Click the instance name to view the Content Hub product profile.

Content Hub product profile

Step 2: Onboard Content Hub administrator onboard-content-hub-administrator

Content Hub administrators can access the Configuration User Interface on Content Hub in addition to accessing brand-approved assets, uploading assets to Content Hub, Adobe Express integration to edit images (if you have Adobe Express entitlements).

To onboard the Content Hub administrator:

  1. Access and click the Content Hub user product profile.

  2. Click Add users to add users or user groups to the product profile.

  3. Click Save to save the changes.

  4. After adding the user to the Content Hub product profile, access Experience Manager Assets product profiles by clicking the AEM as a Cloud Service product name in the list of products on Admin Console.

  5. Click the production author instance for AEM as a Cloud Service:
    Product profiles for AEM as a Cloud Service

    Admin Console displays two product profiles for AEM as a Cloud Service: Administrators and Users.

  6. Click the Administrators product profile and click Add users to add the user to the product profile.
    Administrator product profile

  7. Click Save to save the changes.

Step 3: Onboard Content Hub users onboard-content-hub-users

Content Hub users can access assets available on the portal but cannot add any new assets or modify existing assets.

To onboard Content Hub users:

  1. Access and click the Content Hub user product profile.

  2. Click Add users to add users or user groups to the product profile.

  3. Click Save to save the changes.

These users can now access the assets available on the Content Hub portal.

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You can use all the advanced enterprise features like synchronization with external Identity Providers.

How to access Content Hub? access-content-hub

Content Hub can be accessed using the following ways:

  • Access Content Hub using the following link:

    https://experience.adobe.com/#/assets/contenthub

  • Log on to experience.adobe com and click Experience Manager Assets Content Hub available in the Quick access section:
    Content Hub Access

  • Log on to experience.adobe com and click Experience Manager Assets Content Hub available in the product switcher:
    Content Hub Access method 3

Disable email notifications to users disable-email-notifications

If administrators need to disable email notifications sent to users when they are added to the Content Hub product profile:

Click the search icon adjacent to the product profile name and disable the Notify users by email toggle.

Disable email notifications

Step 4: Onboard Content Hub users with rights to add assets (Optional) onboard-content-hub-users-add-assets

Content Hub users with rights to add assets can upload new brand-approved assets to Content Hub.

To onboard Content Hub users with rights to add users:

  1. After adding the user to the Content Hub product profile, access Experience Manager Assets product profiles by clicking the AEM as a Cloud Service product name in the list of products on Admin Console.

  2. Click the production author instance for AEM as a Cloud Service:
    Product profiles for AEM as a Cloud Service

    Admin Console displays two product profiles for AEM as a Cloud Service: Administrators and Users.

  3. Click the Users product profile and click Add users to add the user to the product profile.
    User product profile

  4. Click Save to save the changes.

Step 4: Onboard Content Hub users with rights to remix assets to new variations (Optional) onboard-content-hub-users-remix-assets

Content Hub users with rights to remix assets to new variations can modify existing assets using Adobe Express and save the asset to the repository. Editing assets using Adobe Express is only available if the user has Adobe Express entitlements.

To onboard Content Hub users with rights to remix assets to new variations:

  1. After adding the user to the Content Hub product profile, access Experience Manager Assets product profiles by clicking the AEM as a Cloud Service product name in the list of products on Admin Console.

  2. Click the production author instance for AEM as a Cloud Service:
    Product profiles for AEM as a Cloud Service

    Admin Console displays two product profiles for AEM as a Cloud Service: Administrators and Users.

  3. Click the Users product profile and click Add users to add the user to the product profile.
    User product profile

  4. Click Save to save the changes.

Experience Manager Assets users experience-manager-assets-users

Experience Manager Assets users can approve assets on AEM as a Cloud Service so that they are available on Content Hub.

To configure Experience Manager Assets users:

  1. Access Experience Manager Assets product profiles by clicking the AEM as a Cloud Service product name in the list of products on Admin Console.

  2. Click the production author instance for AEM as a Cloud Service:
    Product profiles for AEM as a Cloud Service

    Admin Console displays two product profiles for AEM as a Cloud Service: Administrators and Users.

  3. Click the Users product profile and click Add users to add the user to the product profile.
    User product profile

  4. Click Save to save the changes.

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    NOTE
    You do not need to be added to the Content Hub product profile for the Experience Manager Assets users.
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