Authoring with AEM for Edge Delivery Services
Authoring and persisting content in AEM as a Cloud Service using the Universal Editor, you benefit from the power of AEM’s robust tool set for managing your content such as multi-site, management, localization workflows, and launches, while at the same time your pages are delivered with unparalleled performance by Edge Delivery Services.
Authoring Workflow
When using AEM as a Cloud Service for managing your content, the Universal Editor and Edge Delivery Services work together for a seamless authoring experience.
- The AEM Sites console is used for content management such as creating new pages, Experience Fragments, Content Fragments, etc.
- All features of AEM are available such as workflows, MSM, translation, Launches, etc.
- The Universal Editor is used to author the content managed in AEM.
- The Universal Editor offers a new and modern UI for content authoring.
- AEM renders the HTML but includes the scripts, styles, icons and other resources from Edge Delivery Services.
- All changes are persisted to AEM as a Cloud Service.
- Content that you author with the Universal Editor and persist to AEM is published to Edge Delivery Services.
- AEM renders semantic HTML that is needed for ingestion by Edge Delivery Services.
- Content is published to Edge Delivery Services.
- Edge Delivery Services ensure a 100% core web vitals score.
Page Structure
When authoring content using AEM and the Universal Editor, the same concepts of page blocks and sections used when authoring document-based content are used to structure your pages.
Blocks are fundamental components of a page delivered by Edge Delivery Services. Authors can choose from default blocks provided as standard by Adobe or from blocks customized for your project by your developers.
The Universal Editor provides a modern and intuitive GUI for authoring your content by adding and arranging blocks, which the Universal Editor refers to as components.
Details of the components can then be configured in the Properties panel.
First Steps
If you wish to get started authoring content using AEM and the Universal Editor with Edge Delivery Services, please see the following documents.
Getting Started – Universal Editor Developer Tutorial
Get you up-and-running with a new project using the Universal Editor and AEM for authoring.
Creating Blocks for use with the Universal Editor
Learn how to create blocks instrumented for the Universal Editor including definitions, block decoration, and styles.
Path mapping
To use AEM authoring as your content source, you need to set up your project’s path mapping.
Managing tabular data
Manage tabular data using an intuitive tool: the spreadsheet.
Publishing pages with AEM Assets
Publish assets from AEM Assets along with content you edit in AEM to Edge Delivery Services.
Advanced Usage
Depending on your project needs, you might like to investigate some more advanced features.
Managing taxonomy data
AEM allows you to create a rich taxonomy of tags to organize your pages.
Reusing content across sites
If you have many similar sites that mostly look and behave the same, but have different content, you may want to share code across multiple sites.
Multi site management
You can use multi site management to create an entire content structure for your brand across locales and languages, authoring the content centrally.
Repoless stage and prod environments
Learn how to set up a site for your production environment separate from your staging environment.