AEM Documentation Journeys
A Documentation Journey ties together many different topics and features by providing a narrative that helps the reader understand and solve a business problem from beginning to end, while assuming minimal prior topic or AEM knowledge.
Documentation Journeys are designed around best practices principles, informed by Adobe’s latest research, proven implementation experience from Adobe consultants, and feedback from customer projects.
If you want to know how Adobe recommends how to solve sites business cases with AEM, AEM Sites Journeys are where to start.
Audience
This journey lays out the requirements, steps, and approach to create a program and set up an AEM sandbox with the AEM Reference Demos Add-on including demo comtemt of Sites, or Screens, or both. Its primary audience is the system administrator assigned to the Business Owner role in Cloud Manager. The Business Owner is usually the same person who is in charge of environment management. However, after the Reference Demos Add-on is installed, that administrator may grant other users access to the AEM environment to test the features that are enabled by the add-on.
The AEM Reference Demo Add-on Journey
You explore several topics in this journey. The following articles give you foundational knowledge of creating a program and setting up and using the AEM Reference Demos Add-on and should be read in the order that they are. They link out to detailed technical documentation as necessary.
# | Article | Description |
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0 | AEM Reference Demos Add-on Journey | This document |
1 | Understand Reference Demo Add-on Installation | Learn about Cloud Manager and how it is used to install the add-on. |
2 | Create a Program and a Pipeline | Learn how to set up a new program and pipeline to deploy the add-on. |
3 | Create a Demo Site | Create a demo site in AEM based on a library of pre-configured templates. |
4 | (Optional) Enable AEM Screens for Your Demo Site | Optional - Learn the extra steps to enable the full AEM Screens as a Cloud Service experience on your demo site. |
5 | Manage Your Demo Sites | Learn about the tools available to help you manage your demo sites and how to remove them. |
What’s Next
You are now ready to get started on your AEM Reference Demo Add-on journey.
- If you want to learn how Cloud Manager and AEM work together to create your demo environments, and how to set up and use your own, continue to Understand Reference Demo Add-on Installation. Be sure you proceed through the articles in order.
- If you are experienced with Cloud Manager, or you want to jump directly into configuration and usage of the add-on, skip to Create a Program and a Pipeline and start your journey there.
Additional Resources
Check out these additional resources for more information on how AEM’s powerful features work together.
- Cloud Manager documentation - If you would like more details on Cloud Manager’s features, you may want to directly consult the in-depth technical docs.
- AEM as a Cloud Service technical documentation - If you already have a firm understanding of AEM, you may want to directly consult the in-depth technical docs.