Adobe Experience Manager Tutorials

Friday, 7 April 2017

Create Brands in AEM Personalizaton

Brands in AEM
We need to create brands for starting with Personalization.
The personalization configuration page can be opened by clicking on Adobe Experience Manager link as below.

On clicking on personalization will open further configuration for audiences, offers, activities.

Links to create audience, offers, activities.

Audiences: http://localhost:4502/libs/cq/personalization/touch-ui/content/audiences.html
Activities: http://localhost:4502/libs/cq/personalization/touch-ui/content/activities.html
Offers: http://localhost:4502/libs/cq/personalization/touch-ui/content/offers.html

Now let us see how to create brands

Both activities/offers help to create a new brand.

Once we are in activities/offers, click on create, Create Brand below screen appears.

Enter the Brand title and relevant tags, click on create.

Now we have a new brand created.

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 this way.

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Personalization in AEM 6.2 and later

Personalization in AEM 6.2

In AEM 6.2 personalization works based on Experience, Activities and ContextHub. Let us see how can we test a basic Personalization in AEM 6.2.

Below are the steps to create personalization in Latest AEM.

-Add and configure ContextHub Segments
-Create a Brand and related Activity, (We need to select ContextHub as Engine and create its Experiences from the new segments);
-Add targets and relevant personalization components for each Experience.
-Configured the targeted component to use ContextHub as Engine;

Programmatic Personalization: Previous Posts
Programmatic personalization
Create personalization in older version of AEM
Watch the Personalization video here

Let us create a sample personalization component in Geometric site.

Once we open a Geometric Outdoors page we can see the Targeting option as below. By default BRAND is selected as 'Geometric Outdoors'.

To create our own activity for the selected brand, click on the '+' symbol as shown below . In the new activity form Enter a name (For eg:'My Target') and select target engine. (Context Hub is selected to ensure we are using our own segmentation from AEM). We can also use Adobe Target configuration to create personalization.

Once new activity is created, select the activity as shown below.

Now in Targeting mode, click on 'Start Targeting', A default experience will be always enabled. Now add new experience by clicking on '+ Add Experience Targeting'

Select the Context Hub Segments which you have created referring Previous post. Basically we have one male(Test Male CH) and one female(Test Female CH) ContextHub segments created as experience.

Now author an image component in empty area of the page.

Right click , select Target, so that the component is enabled for target.

Now right click and select Experiences,

Once you select the 'My Target', you can see all configured experiences appearing.( We can disable any of them in case they are not needed.)

Now go back to targeting mode, start targeting, select the component and select the experience to be updated. Click on 'add offer'.

Select the new image to be appeared on the corresponding experience. Click 'Next' for 'Create', 'Target', 'Goals & Settings' and save the Targeting.

We are done with our targeting configuration.

Testing the configuration:

Now click on preview select the user/ Persona and change for male and female.

Once male user is selected from PERSONA

Once female user is selected from PERSONA

We can test the persona, Geo-changes using Client context also.

Watch the video here

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ClientContext in AEM

The Client Context holds dynamic user data. Content Targeting works based on Client Context. Various user aspects can be used to target specific people and this data comes from Client Context. Client Context data can be used for analytics and other usage in a page using Javascript. Touch UI uses Context Hub instead of Client Context.

Client Context works based on below aspects:

The session store: Holds the dynamic user data.
The Simulation UI: Which displays the user data and assists in simulating the user experience.
A javascript API: Page can interact with session stores.

In classic UI, selecting the icon opens the Client Context as shown.

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Simulation examples:

We can click on the user icon as shown below and select different types of users and test the user personalization in various pages.

Now click on preview select the user/ Persona and change for male and female.

Once male user is selected from PERSONA

Once female user is selected from PERSONA

ContextHub/Segments - Audience Creation

ContextHub/Segments - Audience Creation

ContextHub is a new form(Touch based) of Segments available in previous version of AEM. The ContextHub page provides information about the default and user created stores and UI modules that have been created, the client library folders that are loaded, and links to useful pages.

Click on below link to open your local ContextHub Audience Page in AEM 6.2
http://localhost:4502/libs/cq/personalization/touch-ui/content/audiences.html

It provides grid/ list views.

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ContextHub 'Create' provides 2 options

Create Target Audience: Helps to configure the Target Audience by selecting the Target Configuration, which is already configured.
Create Context Hub Segment: A section where we can add new segments and update existing ones.

Below screen lists the segments available.

Once you click on Create Context Hub Segment, below screen appears
Enter the segment title and boost value if it has to be boosted on evaluation

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

Now click on the + Icon and Insert New Component, select 'Container AND'

Again click on the newly added container AND and select 'Comparison: Property - Property'

Now the container appears as below with property null.

Now edit the property as below , so that the newly added Context Hub Segment becomes a 'male' test based on profile.

Once we select the user/persona as shown below the Segment satisfy the condition

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

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Monday, 27 March 2017

Upgrading Previous versions of CQ/AEM to AEM 6.2

Notes on Upgrading to AEM 6.2

We worry a lot when we get a request from client to Upgrade AEM from older version to AEM 6.2. Let us see some important things to be taken care while doing this activity.
Basically we go with product upgrades for two reason. Firstly the support for old versions gets expired. secondly, there are lots of new features and security upgrades in newer versions. AEM upgrade activities should include implementation, regression, full testing, downtime, go-live and production operations etc.

Adobe recommends In place upgrade method for upgrading to AEM Latest versions. This is one of the most tested method whith in Adobe. There are many individual tasks that are performed during an in-place upgrade. Also AEM 6.2 requires JRE 1.7.x (64bit) or later.

Upgrade Steps in High Level

Analysis
Planning
Preparation
Execution
Post Upgrade Activities

AEM upgrade has two steps basically.
1)Upgrading the repository. (Using crx2oak tool)
2)Upgrading AEM to 6.2.
Note: For AEM 6.1 to 6.2 upgrade, we don't have to do step (1) since we already have OAK(CRX3).

Version dependencies:
AEM versions 5.4 to AEM 6.1 can be directly upgraded to 6.2.
AEM 5.3 and below versions needs to upgrade first to version 5.4 or above, then to AEM 6.2.
AEM 6.1 to 6.2 upgrade can be carried out by just upgrading AEM(Not repository), In all other versions we need to upgrade the repository.

Some precautions.

If your code is well maintained, and components are granular, you are safe. Ensure the infrastructure team is fully understood the architectural changes. Another success factor is you testing the upgrade activities minimum 3 times in development machines, to ensure all integration, third party APIS work perfectly.

Upgrade Steps:

Preparing the source instance: Here we are ensuring our environment is ready for upgrade.

Create a full backup - Take a backup of content and any custom codes
Cleanup any content - remove unwanted content, packages, workflows
Consistency and Traversal Checks - Validate system checks using Adobe tools
Run a test suite - Ensure you have a test suite with all functionality checking
Disable custom authentication mechanisms - Disable any hooks related to authentications.
upgrade customization - Upgrade your customs codes to reflect new APIs, removing deprecated ones.
Stop the instance
Archive then delete the log files - Delete all old log files.

Content Repository Migration : Migrate the repository to Apache Oak Using crx2oak tool.

AEM Upgrade: Start the AEM 6.2 quickstart jar with the appropriate run modes (author, publish)

Post Upgrade :

Verify the upgrade.log and error.log for any issues.
Ensure the home page is loading fine.
Run the same test suite which you ran before upgrade and ensure things are normal.

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AEM upgrade Issues:

Internationalization

Website Design Steps

Current scenarios: At present teams are upgrading various cq/aem versions as below.

CQ 5.3 to AEM 6.2

CQ 5.4 to AEM 6.2

CQ 5.5 to AEM 6.2

CQ 5.6 to AEM 6.2

CQ 5.6.1 to AEM 6.2

AEM 6.0 to AEM 6.2

AEM 61. to AEM 6.2

Thursday, 9 March 2017

AEM: Adobe Analytics integration with Adobe Campaign

Basically Analytics integration for AEM website and mobile app procedure remains same. Below given mobile app procedures.

Adobe campaign:

Adobe Campaign lets you design and orchestrate targeted and personalized campaigns on multiple channels, such as e-mail, direct mail, SMS, Wap Push, search, social etc.

Adobe Analytics:

Analytics service provide various levels of views like visitor geo-location, what days they come the most frequently, and how long they’re staying as well as several metrics based on e-commerce data, CRM attributes, engagement, etc

Adobe Analytics data can be used to create effective Adobe campaign across channels. Adobe Analytics & Campaign Combined Together can delver following capabilities.

Performance measurement in real time
360-degree qualification and targeting
Highly personalized re-marketing

Campaign to Mobile App

The Mobile App Channel lets you use the Adobe Campaign platform to send personalized notifications to iOS and Android terminals via apps. Basically there are two delivery channels available:

An iOS channel
An Android channel

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There are ways to optout it. The NMAC opt-out management (mobileAppOptOutMgt) workflow updates notification unsubscriptions on mobile devices.

Adobe Campaign is compatible with both binary and HTTP/2 APNS.

To use the functionalities of the Adobe Campaign Mobile App Channel, you need to change/adapt your mobile application to integrate it into the Adobe Campaign platform using Two SDKs (one for android , other for iOS)

How Campaign Collects Data
Action, Event activities support below data collection methods.

1) The Data loading- RDBMS: The Data loading (RDBMS) activity lets you access this external database directly and to collect only the data required for targeting.

2) The Loading- SOAP: The Loading (SOAP) activity is used in addition to the data loading (RDBMS) activity when it is not possible to collect data directly via the FDA in an external database.

3) Data loading (file): The Load (File) activity lets you directly access a source of external data and use it in Adobe Campaign. A scheduler can be run to retrieve the file.

Campaign set up procedure steps are given below.

Configure connectors
Collecting information (collect the technical specifications which define the set of parameters that enable Adobe Campaign and the mobile application to communicate, like integration key, variables, urls etc)

Creating the service
Adobe Campaign administrator needs to create and configure a service linked to the mobile application

Push Notification services.
APNS (Apple Push Notification Service) for Apple
GCM (Google Cloud Messaging) for Android

Adobe Campaign uses two types of APIs:
• Generic data access APIs for querying the data model data
• Business specific APIs that let you act on each object: deliveries, workflows, subscriptions, etc.

Thursday, 23 February 2017

Sample WCMUse Java File for AEM

The VehicleService.Java WCMUse class below, build and deploy it using maven to your AEM.

package com.aem;

import org.apache.sling.api.SlingHttpServletRequest;
import com.day.cq.wcm.api.Page;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import com.adobe.cq.sightly.WCMUse;

public class VehicleService extends WCMUse {
private Map<String, String> map;

@Override
public void activate() throws Exception {
SlingHttpServletRequest request = getRequest();
Page currentPage = getCurrentPage();
createVehicleDetails(request, currentPage);
}

/**
* This will Create vehicle map
*
* @return
*/
private void createVehicleDetails(SlingHttpServletRequest request, Page currentPage) {
map = new HashMap<String, String>();
map.put("name", "NewVehicle");
map.put("price", "1000");
}

/**
* This will return vehicle
*
* @return vehicle map
*/

public Map<String,String> getVehicleDetails() {

return map;
}

}