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Experience League events
Experience League events are a great place to learn, interact, and get answers from product experts at Adobe! See Events on Experience League to stay updated for July 2022.
We’ll be joined by Adobe Premier Support Business Consultant Rachel Booth, aka @rbooth115. She’ll be signed in to the Adobe Target Community to chat directly with you on this thread about your questions pertaining to her areas of expertise (personalization, optimization, integration). Date: Wednesday, August 3rd @ 8 a.m. PDT - 9 a.m. - Details & registration
In this final of three sessions regarding data collection for the Adobe Experience Cloud, our experts will provide a deeper dive into Adobe’s advanced data collection capabilities, including functions like data prep for data collection. At the end of this session, attendees will feel confident with the latest and most powerful features for collecting data from digital experiences Date: July 21 @ 9 a.m. PDT - Details
See Events on Experience League to stay updated on upcoming events and past episodes.
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.
Provisioning update
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Please review the following notice regarding Experience Cloud provisioning.
Adobe is updating its provisioning to provide all Experience Cloud customers access to foundational capabilities that aid interoperability between some Experience Cloud products. Users will have Adobe Experience Platform as a new entitlement added to their Experience Cloud organizations, with Data Collection as an included service.
Adobe Experience Platform Data Collection includes tags for simplified universal tag management, and offers a trusted, robust, and complete, streaming data infrastructure. Tags simplify customer experience data collection and streamlines experience delivery.
Changes in Admin Console
Administrators could see changes or additions to the Admin Console as follows:
The Adobe Experience Platform product card in the Admin Console will include:
Places
Assurance
Identity Namespace
Sandboxes
Experience Data Model
Schemas
Datastreams
Visitor ID
For organizations that are not currently using Experience Platform, you will now see the Adobe Experience Platform product in the Admin Console, including the capabilities listed above.
For organizations currently using Experience Platform, Places will now be consolidated into the Experience Platform card.
Adobe Experience Platform Data Collection (formerly, Launch) and Privacy will continue to appear as separate product cards from the other Experience Platform capabilities.
For more details about the new capabilities, please visit their respective pages on Experience League:
Navigate faster: You can now further personalize your home experience and decide which applications are at your fingertips. Use the new pinning feature to select which applications appear front and center on your Quick Access. Stay informed with smart pinning: Your new applications are now easier to find. Newly assigned applications display a New badge and auto-pin to Quick Access.
More help resources on Experience Cloud Central UI Components & Administration
Release notes for Experience Cloud Central UI Components
Learn how to set up an Experience Platform sandbox environment with sample data. Using a Postman collection, you can create field groups, schemas, datasets and then import sample data into Experience Platform.
With Segment Match, data can be shared to you by your strategic partners. In this video, learn how to approve and receive the data, and where you can see it and add it to your own segments.
In this second of three livestream sessions regarding data collection, our favorite experts provide an extensive look at Adobe RTCDP Connections, where customers can forward events to non-Adobe destinations using a server-side tag management system.
Learn about some of the great improvements to the Flow visualization. Improvements include letting you configure the start or end of the path you are interested in, filtering a column to include or exclude a specific item, and pre-configurable advanced settings.
Learn how to configure the next and previous item panel in Customer Journey Analytics. This panel generates tables and visualizations to identify the next or previous item for a specific dimension value.
Learn to create an annotation in your Customer Journey Analytics projects when events like campaign launches, data issues, and holidays occur. This feature informs your users about metric variances on these dates or date ranges.
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.
New features, fixes, and updates in Experience Manager. Adobe recommends customers with On-Premise deployments to deploy the latest patches to ensure higher stability, security, and performance.
A new user interface is now available for content admins and content authors to efficiently manage (take actions such as publish, unpublish, copy, and move), search/filter, and create content fragments for Headless use-cases.
The new Table of Contents Component works not only with the Core Components but with all components, automatically rendering table of contents on content pages. And, because it is rendered server-side and fully cached by the dispatcher, it is also efficient to load.
Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service
New features in Assets:
Experience Manager Assets uses Adobe Sensei AI capabilities to now distinguish between colors in an image and apply those as tags automatically on ingestion. These tags enable enhanced Search experience, based on image color composition. You can configure the number of colors, within a range of one to forty, that are tagged to an image so that you can search for images based on those colors later.
Experience Manager Forms as a Cloud Service
New features in Forms:
Wizard to create an Adaptive Form: You can use business user friendly wizard to quickly author Adaptive Forms. The wizard provides a quick tab navigation to easily select pre-configured template, styling, fields, and submission options to create an adaptive form.
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Foundation
What’s new:
As mentioned in the May (2022.5.0) release notes, the “Add tree” option under the replication agent admin screen’s Distribute tab was removed. Packages with a tree hierarchy of content should instead be replicated using Manage Publication or the Publish Content Tree workflow.
Cloud Manager
What’s New:
Cloud Manager users can now access useful video tutorials from the Welcome card on the landing page at any time.
The popover on the Restore Content tab of the environments details page now displays a handy list of git commands allowing the user to view changes locally.
New Experience Manager courses and tutorials
New videos, tutorials, and courses published over the past month.
Learn about headless experience management using the latest Experience Manager Content Fragment enhancements and the new GraphQL API for headless content delivery.
Example applications are a great way to explore the headless capabilities of Adobe Experience Manager. This iOS application demonstrates how to query content using AEM’s GraphQL APIs using persisted queries.
Learn how to configure OSGI for AEM CS. For example, learn about management of OSGi bundles and managing the configuration settings for OSGi components through configuration files that are part of an AEM code project.
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.
A guide intended for merchants and system administrators that are new to Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source. Get an overview of the platform from their perspective and some detailed information about basic features that enable a functional store.
Learn about Page Builder features, including a three-part walkthrough for building basic content components. This guide is for administrators. It assumes a basic understanding of the core Adobe Commerce configuration and functionality.
Learn about the Companies page in Adobe Commerce. You can manage your company accounts and any pending requests for approval appear at the top of the list.
Learn about the Site-Wide Analysis Tool. This feature is proactive, self-service tool and central repository that includes detailed system insights and recommendations to ensure the security and operability of your Adobe Commerce installation.
View Skill Builder presentations and learn about recent innovations in Adobe’s Content solution that help you democratize content authoring, make omni-channel delivery a breeze, and scale personalization.
Learn to create and save custom audiences in Target to use in your activities.
Adobe Campaign
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 about the latest trends in Customer Journey Management across B2B and B2C. See the most recent innovations in key journey applications and the broader Adobe Experience Cloud and Platform.
Plug in to your Adobe Campaign Standard instance and discover best practices around targeting, personalization, and marketing fatigue to have a better usage of ACS.
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.
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.
New Marketo tutorials and courses
New videos, tutorials, or courses published for Adobe Marketo.
Learn more about system settings to enhance your users’ experience, including user organization, custom forms, approval processes and milestones, and layout templates.
Once you’ve learned the basics of creating, planning, and managing projects, there are a few more things you should know to get the most out of Workfront.
Learn how to use a Review or Request license to easily request, review, and collaborate on tasks, documents, and proofs in the new Workfront experience.
Capture your organization’s unique information by creating custom fields in your system. Learn to create, share, and attach custom forms within Workfront.
Reporting elements are the filters, views, and groupings found in all list reports in Workfront. Learning about these helps you create custom reports and calendars.
Gain a greater understanding of wildcards, OR filters, and text mode. Open up built-in project, task, and issue filters and get into the details of what’s really going on.
See the Workfront releases page for a round-up of the latest information for all products.
(July 27 release) Auction Insights is a new troubleshooting tool that allows you to analyze the deal composition of both guaranteed and non-guaranteed private deals. Using data visualizations, this tool shows the trend and relative proportions of values received for key auction attributes within a specific time period.
New features in Advertising Cloud Search
Last updated: August 23, 2022
Feature
Description
Campaigns
(Opt-in beta feature for all advertisers; July 16 release) You can now create and manage Google Ads performance max campaigns, including manually creating asset groups and uploading assets. Links to Google Merchant Center product feeds aren’t supported.
Once you opt in for the beta, you can create campaigns with the Campaign Type “Performance Max” and set up asset groups within the campaign settings. You can also view your existing performance max campaigns, with performance data in table and trend chart format, in the Campaigns view. Campaign-level performance data is also available in reports and in Adobe Analytics (for advertisers with an Analytics integration).
To opt in for the beta, contact your Adobe account team.
Google Ads no longer provides ad-level performance data for standard shopping campaigns, dynamic search ads, or placements.
Campaigns, Advanced Campaign Management, Reports
(July 16 release) (Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising campaigns) The following support is now available for responsive search ads:
The Ads view now shows previews of responsive search ads.
(Since June 20) You can now create dynamic responsive search ad variations using a search engine-specific ad template, based on the contents of your inventory, from Campaigns > Advanced (ACM).
The Ad Variation Report includes two new custom columns: “Creative Titles,” which adds a column for each of the ad’s titles (“Creative Title” through “Creative Title15”), and “Descriptions,” which adds a column for each of the ad’s description rows (“Description1” through “Description4”). When you include these columns, you don’t need to include the other Creative Title and Description columns.
Adobe Document Cloud
New tutorials and courses published for Adobe Document Cloud.
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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