Basic Handling basic-handling
This document is designed to give an overview of basic handling when using the AEM author environment.
A Touch-Enabled UI a-touch-enabled-ui
AEM’s user interface is enabled for touch. A touch-enabled interface lets you use touch to interact with the software through gestures such as tap, tap-and-hold, and swipe. Because the AEM UI is touch-enabled, you can use the touch gestures on your touch devices such as your mobile phone or tablet. However mouse actions on a traditional desktop device are also available, giving you flexibility in how you choose to author your content.
First Steps first-steps
Immediately after logging in you arrive on the Navigation panel. Selecting one of the options opens the respective console.
To get a good understanding of the basic use of AEM, this document is based on the Sites console. Select on Sites to get started.
Product Navigation product-navigation
Whenever a user first accesses a console, a product navigation tutorial is started. Take a minute to select through to get a good overview of the basic handling of AEM.
Select Next to advance to the next page of the overview. Select Close or select outside of the overview dialog to close.
The overview will restart the next time you access a console unless you either view all slides or check the option Don’t show this again.
Global Navigation global-navigation
You can navigate between the consoles using the global navigation panel. This is triggered as a full-screen drop-down when you select the Adobe Experience Manager link at the top-left of the screen.
You can close the global navigation panel by clicking or tapping Close to return to your previous location.
Global navigation has two panels, represented by icons at the left-margin of the screen:
- Navigation - Represented by a compass and the default panel when you log in to AEM
- Tools - Represented by a hammer
The options available on these panels are described below.
Navigation Panel navigation-panel
The Navigation panel:
The title of the browser tab will update to reflect your location as you navigate through the consoles and content.
From Navigation the consoles available are:
Tools Panel tools-panel
The Tools panel has a side panel containing a range of categories, that group together similar consoles. The Tools consoles provide access to several specialized tools and consoles that help you administer your websites, digital assets, and other aspects of your content repository.
The Header the-header
The header is always present at the top of the screen. While most options in the header remain the same no matter where you are in the system, some are context-specific.
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Global Navigation - Select the Adobe Experience Manager link to navigate between consoles.
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Feedback
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Your IMS organization - select to change if required.
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Solutions - Select this to access your other Adobe solutions.
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Search - You can also use the shortcut key
/(forward slash) to invoke search from any console.
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Notifications - This icon is badged with the number of currently assigned incomplete notifications.
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User Properties - Select this to change your user settings.
Accessing Help accessing-help
There are a number of help resources available and a few ways to access it.
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Toolbar - Depending on your location, the Help icon opens the appropriate resources:
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Console - The first time you navigate the system, a series of slides introduce AEM navigation.
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Page Editor - The first time you edit a page a series of slides introduce the page editor.
- Navigate this overview as you would the product navigation overview when first accessing any console.
- From the Page Information menu you can select Help to show this again at any time.
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Tools Console - From the Tools console you can also access the external Resources:
- Documentation - View the Web Experience Management documentation
- Developer Resources - Developer resources and downloads
? (question mark) when in a console.