Create Brands in AEM 6.4 for Personalization

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Through this post we are talking about AEM 6.4 Brands and method of creation of brands. In case if you are interested in 6.3 version of Brands follow this page.

Brands in AEM 6.4
To work with personalization, we need to create brands.

The personalization configuration page can be opened by clicking on Adobe Experience Manager link as below.

• Login to AEM 6.4

• Traverse through Navigation> Personalization> Activities>

Remember you can create Brand in both 'Activities' or 'Offers'

• Click on Create Brand

• Then in next screen(Template) select the Brand , click on Next

• In 'Properties' screen enter title and select any tags if required. Then click on 'create'.

• You will get a message that page is created and it will be listed under activities section

Note: The newly created brand will be listed under both Activity & Offers

If we are under Activity Section;
Under the new brand we have options to create Activity, Area, Area As Live Copy.

If we are under Offers Section;
Under the new brand we have options to create Folder or offer, Area, Area As Live Copy.

Based on the requirement we can now create any levels of various personalized content utilizing this brands.

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Personalization Basics & Steps to create Personalization in AEM 6.4

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Steps to configure personalization from brands, activity with a sample 

Test Configured personalization

ContextHub/Segments AEM 6.4 - Audience Creation

PREVIOUS: Personalization Basics & Steps to create Personalization in AEM 6.4

There are 2 ways we can achieve Personalization in AEM.

 

Through this post, we are discussing about the ContextHub based personalization and method of ContextHub creation. 
 
ContextHub/Segments - Audience Creation

ContextHub is a new form(Touch based) of segments which helps to configure the personalization. The ContextHub page provides information about the default and user created stores and UI modules, the client library folders that are loaded, and links to useful pages.
  
Read About ContextHub/Segments - Audience Creation AEM 6.3 version

Steps to create ContextHub in AEM 6.4

• Login to AEM 6.4

• Traverse through Navigation> Personalization> Audiences> 

• Then enter into the site where you want to create ContextHubs

I have selected 'we-retail' site for my example.
[You can also follow the path to reach ContextHub creation section through link : http://(host):(port)/libs/cq/personalization/touch-ui/content/v2/audiences.html/conf/we-retail]


Create Context Hub Segment: A section where we can add new segments and update existing ones.
   

 

ContextHub 'Create' provides below option.

• Enter the segment title and boost value if it has to be boosted on evaluation

• Once you click on Create Context Hub Segment, below screen appears.

This section has grid/ list views.

• Once Context Hub Segment is created, select the newly created one and edit it

   

• You can see a 'Container AND' component placed by default. If it is not available, add it.

• Again click on the newly added container (+) icon and insert new component and select 'Comparison: Property - Value'

Now the container appears as below with property null (3).

• Now edit the property as below (4) , so that the newly added Context Hub Segment becomes a 'male' test based on profile; for that follow next step.

• Setting for male: set the values as 'gender equal string male'

•  Since we have logged in as default admin user, the user/persona satisfy the male condition, which is shown below.

• If persona is selected as female the condition becomes un-satisfied.

•  If persona is selected as male the condition becomes satisfied again.

In the upcoming posts we will be discussing further topics on AEM 6.4 personalization.

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Personalization Basics & Steps to create Personalization in AEM 6.4

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ACS AEM Commons page compare utility in AEM 6.4

Adobe consulting services provides a set of utilities which extends the capabilities of AEM. This additional features helps the site administrator/content managers to generate various reports. This tools are further extensible for specific needs.

Read about Content Reports Generation in AEM 6.4

List of ACS AEM Commons tools are given below.

• Generic Lists - Helps to create custom lists
• Reports - Helps to create, execute and view reports
• Audit log search - Search for audit log events
• Content Packagers - create query, ACL and authorizable packages
• Automatic package replication - tooling to automatically replicate AEM packages.
• Dispatcher Flush - Manually flush the AEM Dispatcher cache
• Version Replicator - replicate specific version of content
• Version compare - compare AEM page version content and structure
• Redirect Maps - Define redirect Apache https redirect maps
• Page Compare - Compare AEM Page content and structure
• Manage Controlled Processes- Execute and monitor a suite of provided tasks
• JCR Compare: Compare JCR Content trees across AEM instances
• Bulk workflow manager- Execute AEM workflow at scale
• System Notification - Notify AEM users of important AEM Events
• Workflow remover - Power tooling for Workflow instance remover
• Users to CSV Exporter - Export AEM users to CSV for reporting
• QR Code -  Quickly review published pages on mobile devices

In this post we are talking about the page compare tool.

How to Install AEM ACS Commons tool?

Install steps:

• Download ACS AEM Commons package: https://github.com/adobe-consulting-services/acs-aem-commons/releases
• Upload / install package in AEM through package manager
• Validate installation : Go to http://localhost:4502/aem/start.html > Tools > ACS AEM COMMONS > Page Compare

Now access the URL
{localhost}:{port}/etc/acs-commons/page-compare.html

Men Vs Men
 Here both side same page is selected.

 Paths selected:
/content/we-retail/language-masters/en/men
/content/we-retail/language-masters/en/men

Report

Men Vs Women
 Here one side /men page and other side /women page is selected.

 Paths selected:
/content/we-retail/language-masters/en/women
/content/we-retail/language-masters/en/men

Report

A more detailed explanation is provided in the below video.

Generate Content Reports In AEM 6.4 Using AEM ACS Commons Utility

Adobe consulting services(ACS) provides a set of utilities which extends the capabilities of AEM. This additional features helps the site administrator/content managers. These tools are further extensible for specific needs.

List of ACS AEM Commons tools are given below.

• Generic Lists - Helps to create custom lists
• Reports - Helps to create, execute and view reports
• Audit log search - Search for audit log events
• Content Packagers - create query, ACL and authorizable packages
• Automatic package replication - tooling to automatically replicate AEM packages.
• Dispatcher Flush - Manually flush the AEM Dispatcher cache
• Version Replicator - replicate specific version of content
• Version compare - compare AEM page version content and structure
• Redirect Maps - Define redirect Apache https redirect maps
• Page Compare - Compare AEM Page content and structure
• Manage Controlled Processes- Execute and monitor a suite of provided tasks
• JCR Compare: Compare JCR Content trees across AEM instances
• Bulk workflow manager- Execute AEM workflow at scale
• System Notification - Notify AEM users of important AEM Events
• Workflow remover - Power tooling for Workflow instance remover
• Users to CSV Exporter - Export AEM users to CSV for reporting
• QR Code -  Quickly review published pages on mobile devices

In this post, we are concentrating on the 'Reports' tool which helps to create, execute and view reports based on our needs.

Introduction AEM Content Reports
Open Source AEM ACS commons project, provides AEM Content Reports which is available in version 3.14.0 and supported for AEM 6.3+. This is not an out of the box feature in AEM. This reports can be used to see various reports like,

• The user who has done some mistakes and caused to break the site,
• The user who has activated the home page without approval
• How many pages use the article component which may be deprecating in this release
• How many pages still need to activate in IT site

Content managers need this reports to get a detailed view on the activities happening on the site. This reports provide Web view or csv download options. Also this reports are sharable through links and can be saved for future use.

How to Install AEM Content Reports tool?

Install steps:

• Download ACS AEM Commons package: https://github.com/adobe-consulting-services/acs-aem-commons/releases
• Upload / install package in AEM through package manager
• Validate installation : Go to {host}:{port}/aem/start.html > Tools > ACS AEM COMMONS > Reports

List of available reports

We have options to

•     Create a report
•     Update a report
•     view a report
•     Execute the report
•     Download the CSV format report

 From above options, we can generate various reports by mentioning its corresponding parameters.

Sample Result from Content Reports: This report is generated from 'page report' option to list out all pages under '/content'

How to compare pages using ACS AEM Commons tools? Read This

We can configure any reports using below options :

•     Customizable queries and columns
•     supports user params

  
Extensible Model: This tools are customizable due to below reasons.

•     Built as AEM component
•     Java extensible APIs
•     Supports custom executors, params, columns and exporters

Advantage of AEM Content reports

We can have custom queries executed to generate reports, but the advantage of AEM Content report is given below.


A more detailed explanation is provided in the below video.

What is a Pattern Detector? Role of Pattern Detector in upgrading older AEM to 6.4 version.

Pattern Detector helps in assessing the complexity of AEM upgrades.

How the Pattern Detector works?
Pattern detector scan the existing code base before upgrade to ensure that there are no code breakers involved in current code base. After scanning, Pattern Detector provides a set of action items to fix if any issues found. This includes detailed report of violation explanations and remediation guidance.

How this is helpful?
AEM 6.4 reserves some of the paths and reserved granite codes for internal AEM use only. So Pattern Detector checks any such paths which may be over written by upgrade, also any API which may not be compatible with 6.4 version. Pattern detection is a mandatory step for upgrading to AEM 6.4

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Install & configure Pattern Detector:

The installation & configuration steps can be found here

The Pattern detector is available for versions AEM 6.1, AEM 6.2, AEM 6.3, which is downloadable using Adobe Id. This needs to be installed through AEM package manager.

Access & Analysis of report:
Go to configrMgr and select 'Status'> Pattern Detector. The reports are available in normal text or JSON formats.

Some of the Pattern detector sample codes are

• OCU - Depicts Deprecated usages
• ECU - Suspicious overlays, overrides, references
• LOCP -  Any packages that overwrites '/libs'
• NBCC - Non backwards compatible changes
• CAV - Directs to reduce the amount of overlayed content in general due to security problems

Usage Recommendations:
Pattern detector is recommended to use at stage environments to avoid any slowness in production environments.

Interested in taking a first look at AEM 6.4 UI and dash board? Watch this video.

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Machine Learning Enabled Features in AEM

AEM 6.4 features which a developer must aware of

AEM 6.4 has a lot more features which directly enables the developers activities. Below given my first observation which may help a developer in his day to day activities while working with AEM 6.4. This list may not be complete but definitely gives a good idea about the new things.

There are cloud related upgrades, Fluid experience support, efficient utilization of content intelligence etc in 6.4

Key notes on new features:

Core module version changes

• AEM 6.4 build on top of updated versions of the OSGi-based framework (Apache Sling and Apache Felix)
• Java Content Repository has the latest version: Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.2
• The Quickstart uses Eclipse Jetty 9.3.22 as Servlet engine.

New Style System is available which allow users in Page Editor to select from a subset of styles via UI. The Core Components which were part of AEM 6.3, and now joined by the Style System, provides an efficient way to build new and extend existing sites.
Workflow model editor is now more user friendly.
Assets improvements related to machine learning like smart crop, smart tag, smart search etc reduces the manual activities drastically.

Some of the location/path changes to be noted are,

• Template design information location is moved from /etc/design to support sites specific settings in /conf. But clients who are moving from older version to new version can remain using /etc/design.

• Moved default location for segments into /conf to have site/context specific Segment lists.

Component & Template Development related upgrades

• Project Archetype 13+
• HTL version 1.3.1
• Core Components 2.0.4

There are a set of UI changes too.

• 'Content Tree' rail to quickly navigate a hierarchy
• Improved interaction with the search results
• Keyboard shortcuts, for most common actions
• Ability to enable/disable keyboard shortcuts

Content Fragments & Services, Experience Fragments

• Introduced Structured Content Models as foundation for content fragments.
• New Model editor UI is available with a Pre-configured data elements for content fragment models.
• Improved the usability of the AEM Content Fragment editor like Enhanced rich text editing capabilities, Full screen editing for single elements.
• Content Service is enhanced with JSON output via Sling Model Exporter.
• Integrated AEM Experience Fragments with Adobe Target.

Interested in taking a first look at AEM 6.4 UI and dash board? Watch this video.

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AEM 6.4 Features

Advantages of using Adobe Cloud Manager for AEM

Dynamic Media & Related Features in AEM 6.4

OVERVIEW  - AEM 6.4

Machine Learning Enabled Features in AEM

Content Reports AEM 6.4 

Page Compare reports AEM 6.4 

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AEM Assets Smart Search Capability with Apache Joshua

The latest AEM (AEM 6.4) provides a smart search capability for AEM Assets by translating the search terms. Let us understand more about this here.

What is Apache Joshua Language Packs ?
Wiki says "Apache Joshua is a statistical machine translation decoder for phrase-based, hierarchical, and syntax-based machine translation, written in Java". As of now it has around 64 language packs available.

The new AEM provides smart searches with language translation across AEM content & Assets. Which means when we do a search of term 'Man'(English)/'hombre'(Spanish)/'homme'(French) gives the same assets result which avoids the manual content translation.

How it works?
Apache Oak Machine Translation OSGi bundle once installed, helps to check feasibility of translating a search term utilizing registered language packs. On the back-end the Apache Joshua provides the language packs support.

Steps involved in search translation:

• User searches a English/ Non-English term in AEM search box
• With help of registered language packs the Apache Oak Machine Translation bundle provides a list of translated terms.
• Now each translated terms are executed as queries to AEM search index.
• The results are collected and displayed to user

AEM Smart Search Process

Pre-requisites for adding the functionality.
1) Apache Oak Search Machine Translation OSGi bundle must be installed and configured
2) Apache Joshua language packs(Open source) that contain the translation rules (Specific to our needs; If we need Spanish, we need to install Spanish Language Pack)

How to setup 'Smart Translation Search with AEM Assets'?

• Download and install the Oak Search Machine Translation OSGi bundle
• Download and update the Apache Joshua language packs
• Restart AEM - Ensure to update heap memory allocation
• Update OSGi configurations - To register the language packs via Apache Jackrabbit Oak Machine Translation Fulltext Query Terms Provider

Where do I get the language packs?
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/JOSHUA/Language+Packs

Where do I get Apache Oak Search Machine Translation OSGi bundle
Maven Repository

Show me the configuration at OSGi Level :
https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/kt/assets/using/smart-translation-search-technical-video-setup.html

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Interested in taking a first look at AEM 6.4 UI and dash board? Watch this video.

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Machine Learning Enabled Features in AEM