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Adobe System Status
Adobe System Status provides detailed information, status updates, and email notifications about Adobe products and services outage, disruption, and maintenance events. Check it out at status.adobe.com.
For the latest release information, see Adobe System Status release notes.
Experience Cloud - central interface components & administration
Experience Cloud central UI components include features available on the home page and the persistent product header. These features include user profile settings, preferences, and search. You can also find help on user and product management, Customer Attributes, and Experience Cloud Audiences.
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Natural language search
Get instant answers to all your help questions, through one single interface via Unified Search. This feature is always available to you on every page of Experience Platform and Journey Optimizer.
More help resources on Experience Cloud Central UI Components & Administration
Release notes for Experience Cloud Central UI Components
Learn the essentials of Adobe Experience Platform Privacy Service, including how to prepare your data for privacy operations and sending customer privacy requests to the service.
Learn how to add your data layer to a new datastream in Data Collection. Also, learn how to perform basic mapping functions using the Data Prep for Data Collection feature.
Data storytelling is where art and science come together using data, visualization, and narrative. By effectively telling a story with data, Adobe Analytics can become more approachable to a wider audience, and you can increase the value you bring to your organization through data-driven decision making.
Learn about your role as an Analytics Administrator and get tips on how to gain the expertise that helps you get a seat at the decision-making table in your business.
As your organization’s Adobe Analytics expert, you are key to helping your stakeholders understand the technical details and make the most out of your Adobe Analytics investment.
Quick segments is a simplified segmentation experience directly in the Workspace canvas. Learn how to build on-the-fly segments with up to three rules without having to leave your analysis workflow.
Learn how to annotate a date or date range with known data issues, public holidays, and campaign launches to better inform users why they are seeing what they see in line charts, tables, and more.
Learn about configuring Data Views for Customer Journey Analytics. Data Views are similar to Virtual Report Suites in Adobe Analytics. They allow you to configure the incoming data so that it can be most useful for your reporting and analysis.
Learn how to check the status of your connection’s datasets and of the ingestion process.
Audience Manager
Fixes and improvements in Audience Manager:
Improvement
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Validator for target data sources belonging to other companies
Audience Manager released an improvement to the batch data onboarding process. To prevent accidental file and data onboarding into target data sources owned by other partners, Audience Manager has added a mapping requirement between partner ID (PID) and the data sources (DPID) owned by other partners.
Adobe-internal consultants and customer care should read Manage onboarding access for second-party data for information about the new mapping require improvement and how to request a new mapping
It is not required to request a mapping for existing data sharing relationships. The mapping is also not required when onboarding data into target data sources that belong to your PID.
Experience Manager Dynamic Media now provides the flexibility to configure one alias account in the user interface, thus ensuring out-of-the-box Dynamic Media URLs and Viewer Embed code are updated. This update positively impacts SEO to reflect updates made to your business context, such as rebranding.
You can now use the Experience Manager Assets user interface to:
The administrators can now configure email service for large downloads. It allows the users to enable email notifications for large downloads from the Experience Manager Assets interface. The user receives an email notification containing the download link of the archived zip folder upon completion of the download process.
The Manage Publication feature is enhanced with an improved user interface. A user can publish or unpublish content to and from the selected destination, or Add Content to the publishing list from across the DAM repository. They can Include Folder Settings to publish content of the selected folders and apply filters, and schedule publishing to a later date or time.
New features in Experience Manager Assets prerelease channel
You can sort tags while creating smart tags and when applying search filters using the tags predicate.
Experience Manager Forms as a Cloud Service
New in Forms
Communications - Document Generation APIs — Document Generation APIs help to combine, rearrange, and validate PDF documents. The service lets you generate documents in synchronous mode. The APIs lets you create applications to do the following:
Assemble PDF documents
Disassemble PDF documents
Convert to and validate PDF/A-compliant documents.
Automatically convert PDF Forms more than 15 pages to adaptive forms — You can now use automated forms conversion service to convert PDF Forms with up to 40 pages to adaptive forms. The service now provides the option to convert sections of forms more than 15 pages to adaptive form fragments. It helps improve rendering speed of converted forms and makes it easier to load large forms in the adaptive form editor.
New in Forms prerelease channel
Use custom XCI for generating a Document of Record — You can now use a custom XCI file to set various properties of a Document of Record. It overrides the primary XCI with the custom changes.
Use invisible CAPTCHA in an adaptive form — You can use the invisible CAPTCHA to show the CAPTCHA challenge only if suspicious activity is found. If no suspicious activity is found, the CAPTCHA challenge is not displayed.
Improved SEO for multi-store scenarios - URL formats for PDP / PLP can now be configured on a store level via the CIF Cloud Config properties.
Product picker supports staged products by way of the new filter option in the user interface. This ability lets content practitioners prepare product content management for upcoming product launches.
Simplified CIF configuration management and error handling by using CIF Cloud Config name instead of config proxy URL.
Manual category selection for Product list and Carousel components. This ability lets content practitioners use these components on content pages, outside of the catalog experience.
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Foundation
New features
For more efficient and effective troubleshooting of custom features in Cloud environments, Adobe has released a new developer tool: the Repository Browser. It is a lightweight, read-only, HTML browser that you can launch from the Developer Console. Get visibility into the content repository on the publisher, author, and preview tiers, and in all environments, including production, stage, and dev. Browse the content structure, view properties, and preview and download binaries.
The credentials used to authenticate server-to-server API calls (for example, for GraphQL API requests) can now be refreshed before expiration in a self-serve way from the Developer Console. See the documentation for more info.
Version purge and audit log purge maintenance tasks, which had not previously been enabled, are now enabled for new environments. See the associated values in the Maintenance Task article.
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service SDK Dispatcher Tools now support Mac computers with the M1 chip.
Cloud Manager
Release date
The release date for Cloud Manager in Experience Manager as a Cloud Service 2022.02.0 was 10 February 2022. The next release is planned for 10 March 2022.
New features
New accelerated Web Tier Config pipelines have been introduced to exclusively deploy HTTPD/dispatcher configuration.
This feature is planned for roll-out in a phased approach over the two weeks following the 2022.02.0 release.
The Cloud Manager landing page experience has been refreshed to deliver improved navigation, easy switching between grid/tile views, and pop-overs for quick program summary.
Customers with severe quality issues that impact system stability, primarily related to invalid indexes and workflow processes, cannot deploy until those issues are resolved.
The severity of the BannedPath quality rule has been changed from blocker to critical.
The pipeline wizard informs the user when an Experience Manager environment update may be needed before configuring a Web Tier Config pipeline associated with it.
Community
Upcoming Experience Manager GEMs Webinar
Topic: Integrate AEM & CIF framework to build a rich and immersive e-commerce experience
Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Time: 8:00 a.m. PDT / 5:00 p.m. CET / 8:30 p.m. IST
Repository Browser is a powerful tool that provides visibility into AEM’s underlying data store, allowing for easy debugging of AEM as a Cloud Service environment. Repository Browser supports inspecting all resources and properties of AEM on Production, Stage, and Development, as well as Author, Publish, and Preview services.
Learn how to create and validate PDF/A documents. PDF/A is an ISO-standardized version of the Portable Document Format (PDF) specialized for use in the archiving and long-term preservation of electronic documents.
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Assets is a digital asset management tool on AEM Platform that allows users to create, manage, and share their digital assets (images, videos, documents, and audio clips) in a web-based repository. This user guide contains videos and tutorials on the many features and capabilities of AEM Assets.
Learn how to work with rich text in AEM Headless. The Multi-line text field is a data type of Content Fragments that enables you to create rich text content.
Learn about Repository Browser, a powerful tool that provides visibility into AEM’s underlying data store, allowing for easy debugging of AEM as a Cloud Service environment.
Experience Manager Guides is an application deployed onto AEM. It is a powerful, enterprise-grade component content management solution (CCMS) which enables native DITA support in Adobe Experience Manager, empowering AEM to handle DITA-based content creation and delivery.
Learn about the Upgrade Compatibility Tool and how it can hel you quickly identify the errors and fixes required to upgrade to a newer version of Adobe Commerce.
The Upgrade Compatibility Tool (UCT) is a free tool that analyzes the incompatibilities between your current version and the target upgrade version in just minutes. Adobe provides a PhpStorm plugin to make the tool even easier to use.
Live Search from Adobe Commerce delivers a lightning fast, super-relevant, and intuitive search experience, and is available for Adobe Commerce at no additional charge.
This guide is intended for administrators of Adobe Commerce. It includes detailed information about installation and onboarding of Product Recommendations, as well as configuration and management of the services.
Adobe Campaign provides an intuitive, automated way to deliver one-to-one messages across online and offline marketing channels. You can now anticipate what your clients want using experiences determined by their habits and preferences.
Learn how to connect Adobe Campaign V8 with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) to allow you to manage email delivery templates, assets, and forms in Experience Manager.
With Journey Optimizer, you can manage scheduled omnichannel campaigns and one-to-one moments for millions of customers from a single application–and the entire journey is optimized with intelligent decisioning and insights.
Learn how to create personalized offers in Offer Decisioning. Personalized offers have eligibility rules associated with them to help you show them only to relevant customers.
Learn how to create tags in Offer Decisioning. Tags are optional building block components of offers. They can be used to organize offers and group them in dynamic collections.
Learn how brands can use the decision management capabilities to define and manage their offers, apply real-time customer data, and deliver the right experiences their customers expect.
Use Experience Platform to orchestrate a customer’s journey at scale across experience channels, by intelligently anticipating every individual’s needs in real time.
Marketo Engage is a complete application for lead management and B2B marketers looking to transform customer experiences by engaging across every stage of complex buying journeys.
Core Marketo Engage updates
See Marketo Engage release schedule for the latest release schedule information and release notes.
Adobe Workfront
Adobe Workfront is a unified work management application for sharing ideas, creating content, managing complex processes, and doing their best work.
See the Workfront releases page for a round-up of the latest information for all products.
(Microsoft Advertising accounts that are eligible for Customer Match) All users can now create and manage customer match audiences by uploading CSV files with email addresses. The data must be hashed using the SHA-256 algorithm.
Campaigns
The following beta features are available to advertisers who opt in:
(Microsoft Advertising accounts) Synchronization, read-only visibility, and reporting (including view-through data) support for your existing native ad campaigns on the Microsoft Audience Network, including Microsoft Audience Ads.
(Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising accounts) Ability to import your Google Ads campaigns and campaign structure to Microsoft Advertising from within Advertising Cloud Search.
Contact your Adobe account manager if you’re interested in either beta program.
Campaigns
Portfolios
(Microsoft Advertising campaigns) Support is available for the following bidding strategies:
(General availability) Maximize Conversions, Target CPA, and Target Return on Ad Spend: These strategies are now available to everyone. You can add search campaigns with these bidding strategy to hybrid (but not standard) portfolios.
(Beta feature) Target Impression Share: If you are participating in the hybrid optimization beta, you can configure campaigns with this strategy, and optionally set a target impression share, a target ad position, and a maximum cost per click. Caution: This option isn’t yet supported in hybrid portfolios and can’t be added to standard portfolios.
(Beta feature) Maximize Clicks: If you are participating in the hybrid optimization beta, you can configure campaigns with this strategy, and optionally set a target maximum cost per click. You can include campaigns with this strategy in either standard or hybrid portfolios. To use this strategy in a hybrid portfolio, the portfolio’s objective must include only Adobe properties (metrics), and you must enable uploading of Advertising Cloud Search objectives to Microsoft Ads.
If you aren’t already participating in the hybrid optimization beta and want to join, contact your Adobe account manager.
Advertising Insights
All insights except for Query Cross Matching and Hybrid Portfolio Setup Readiness are now out of beta.
Campaigns
Advertising Insights
(April 11; Google Ads accounts) Advertising Cloud Search has transitioned all API calls from the legacy Google AdWords API to the latest Google Ads API. Moving to the new Google Ads API ensures continuity with existing capabilities and enable access to Google’s latest Ads features.
Some features have not yet been updated to the new API and are temporarily unavailable:
Location extensions:
Location extensions aren’t visible in the Extensions view. You can’t create an extension.
Filters on locations don’t work.
Advertising Insights: The Impression Share Lost and Query Cross Matching Beta analyses aren’t available.
We anticipate restoration of location extension capabilities by the end of April. Once we determine when the affected Advertising Insights modules can also be restored, we’ll send an update with the estimated date.
Integration with Adobe Analytics
(April 7) In the data feed that Advertising Cloud sends to Analytics, data for Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising responsive search ads (RSAs) are reclassified with the Ad Type “Responsive Search Ads” when they receive new clicks. Previously, the data was included for the Ad Type “Text Ads.” RSAs in inactive campaigns won’t be reclassified.
For reclassified RSAs, the Responsive Ad Title is now populated with the first headline and the Responsive Ad Description is populated with the first description.
Adobe Document Cloud
New tutorials and courses published for Adobe Document Cloud.
Learn why over 5 million organizations around the world turn to Acrobat to create unparalleled digital documents that move business forward. Discover new ways to automate manual document workflows and create engaging experiences.
Take your Acrobat skills to the next level with advanced techniques for editing, working with forms, optimizing, and automating tasks. Learn how to automate manual document workflows, protect sensitive business information, and deliver exceptional experiences with your PDF files.
Customer Data Management Voices is your destination as a customer data management technical and marketing practice leader and specialist. This collection of tutorials is your one-stop-shop to hear from your peers, get inspired, and learn about developments in MarTech. No registration required, simply click and watch.
Digital Experience Blueprints
Digital Experience Blueprints are repeatable implementations that let you address strategy and quickly solve established business problems. Each Blueprint provides a series of artifacts that explain the high-value business problem, architectures, implementation steps, technical considerations, and links to the relevant documentation.
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