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Work with Experience Manager assets

Last update: February 6, 2025

Connect your Adobe Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service account to your Adobe Marketo Engage instance so you can leverage your AEM Asset repository in the Marketo Engage Email Designer.

NOTE

Currently, only image assets from Adobe Experience Manager Assets are supported in Marketo Engage. Changes to the assets must be done from the Adobe Experience Manager Assets central repository. Learn more

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Before you can use this capability, you must first link AEM Cloud Services with Adobe Marketo Engage.

Link AEM Cloud Services and Marketo Engage

NOTE

Admin Permissions Required

In Marketo Engage, go to the Admin area and select Adobe Experience Manager in the left navigation tree.
Click Edit next to Adobe Experience Manager Cloud Services.
Select one or more repositories.

NOTE
Only repositories that have been associated in the same IMS org as your Marketo Engage subscription are listed.
You must add a service credential certificate to configure the repository. Click the + Add certificate button.
Drag and drop your certificate (JSON file only), or select it from your computer. Click Add when done.
The configured repository is displayed below along with status and expiration. Click the ellipsis button (…) to view the certificate. Otherwise, you’re done.

Now all the images from the digital asset management library in that repository can be accessed from the Marketo Engage Email Designer.

Working with AEM assets

When you use these digital assets, the latest changes in Assets as a Cloud Service automatically propagate to live email campaigns through linked references. If images are deleted in Adobe Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service, the images appear with a broken reference in your emails. When assets that are currently being used in Marketo Engage are modified or deleted, the email authors are notified about the image changes. All changes to the assets must be done in the Adobe Experience Manager Assets central repository.

Use AEM Assets as the image source

If your environment has one or more assets repository connections, you can designate AEM Assets as the source for assets when you create or view details for an email, email template, or visual fragment.

When creating new content, choose AEM Assets as the Image Source item in the dialog.

Select AEM Assets as the image source in the create dialog

When opening an existing content resource, choose AEM Assets in the Body section on the right.

Select AEM Assets as the image source in the properties

Access assets for authoring

IMPORTANT

An administrator must add users who need access to assets to the Assets Consumer Users and/or Assets Users Product profiles. Learn more

In the visual content editor, click the Experience Manager Asset selector icon in the left sidebar. This changes the tools panel to a list of available assets in the selected repository.

Click the Assets selector icon to access the image assets

If you have more than one connected AEM repository, click the Manage as button to choose the repository you want to use.

Choose an AEM Assets repository to access the image assets

Choose the desired repository.

Choose an AEM Assets repository to access the image assets

There are multiple methods for adding an image asset to the visual canvas:

Drag and drop an image thumbnail from the left navigation.

Choose an AEM Assets repository to access the image assets

Add an image component to the canvas and click Browse to open the Select Assets dialog.

From the dialog, you can choose an image from the selected repository.

There are multiple tools available to help you locate the asset that you need.

Use tool in the Select Assets dialog to find and select an image asset

Change the Repository at the top right.
Click Manage assets at the top right to open the Assets repository in another browser tab and use AEM Assets management tools.
Click the View type selector at the top right to change the display to List View, Grid View, Gallery View, or Waterfall View.
Click the Sort order icon to change the sort order between ascending and descending.
Click the Sort by menu arrow to change the sort criteria to Name, Size, or Modified.
Click the Filter icon on the top left to filter the displayed items according to your criteria.
Enter text in the Search field to filter the displayed items for a match of the asset name.

Use the filters and search field to locate the asset

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