Salesforce

Integrating Salesforce with CQ5

Adobe AEM provide its extendable capabilities to integrate  with other products. Below demonstration describe how to connect Adobe CQ5 with Salesforce which is the market’s leading cloud based CRM System. CQ5 provide OOTB components for the integration purpose. It helps the organization to target the customers through web channels as...

by Vivek Dhiman
Tag: AEM
01-Sep-2014

Technology

YouTube Integration with CQ5

Managing multimedia content to any large scale website is much complicated if the content is dynamic and needs to be changed at regular intervals. Integration of YouTube with CQ5 is one of the use case which can help authors to manage the channel specific videos for particular page related with particular channel. Below is the snapshot...

by Vivek Dhiman
Tag: AEM
31-Jul-2014

Technology

Register Groovy class as Component/Service in CQ

Being a CQ5 developer, I have to register components and services almost everyday. Knowing how powerful Groovy is, I wanted to replace all Java code with Groovy. First step towards it was being able to compile Groovy. I got it to work with the help of this blog. Although I was facing following problem even after this: - I was not...

by Vivek Sachdeva
Tag: AEM
30-Jun-2014

Technology

Change Static Dialog to Dynamic without re-authoring existing content

Almost all the time, we have fields of a component's dialog fixed and any change in it requires change in code. I had a use case in which all the fields had to be populated dynamically from a node that had information in its child nodes. Some challenges that I faced was: - The component was used in lot of places and any change...

by Vivek Sachdeva
Tag: AEM
12-May-2014

Technology

Debugging in AEM

While working on one of a complex requirements in our Adobe CQ5 / AEM project , we felt the need to continuously observe the flow. Though, logs are of good help but we wanted to analyze the complete flow . In this scenario, debugging feature in IDE becomes very handy. Software Stack being used :  CQ Server : AEM 5.6.1 IDE :...

by Geetika Chhabra
Tag: AEM
24-Apr-2014

Technology

Creating Custom Node Type in JCR

In one of our project, we had to create custom node types. In this blogpost, we'll talk about the various ways of creating the Custom Node Type and deploying it across multiple instances. We'll be using AEM 5.6.1 as our CQ server. A. Creating and Registering the Custom Nodetype  There are broadly following three ways of creating...

by Geetika Chhabra
Tag: AEM
07-Apr-2014

Technology

Enabling SSO with CQ5 – Part III

In previous part , we discussed protecting CQ5 author instance when CQ5 acts as a service provider (SP). In this blog post, we'll cover how to protect any published resource/website. We'll be using Shibboleth SP for the same. Necessary Steps:  Installing LDAP Server. Installing Shibboleth IdP. Installing Apache tomcat on...

by Geetika Chhabra
Tag: AEM
26-Mar-2014

Technology

Enabling SSO with CQ5 – Part II

In first part of our tri-part blog series ,  we discussed about the installation and configuration of Shibboleth IdP. We'll be focusing on the following two use cases : Use-Case I : Protecting CQ5 author instance when CQ5 acts as a service provider (SP). Use-Case II: Protecting any published resource/website. This...

by Geetika Chhabra
Tag: AEM
11-Mar-2014

Technology

Enabling SSO with CQ5 – Part I

Single sign-on (SSO) is a mechanism where by a single action of user authentication and authorization can permit a user to access all computers and systems for which he has access permission, without the need to enter multiple passwords. While implementing SSO as part of one of our projects , we thought of protecting CQ5 author and...

by Geetika Chhabra
Tag: AEM
27-Feb-2014

Technology

LDAP integration with AEM (Apache Directory Server)

In this post I'll talk about configuring LDAP with your AEM author instance. This is particularly useful within large enterprises where you would like to leverage the existing user profiles which are are typically maintained in LDAP. We are using the following software stack: CQ server - AEM 5.6.1 LDAP server - Apache DS 2.0.M15 ...

04-Dec-2013

AWS

AEM(CQ5.6) BULK EDITOR Extension Part 1

I am quite fond of the bulk editor feature of CQ and in the past I have used it quite often to quickly view and update content from within the Bulk editor console. Recently I found the need to refer to this "old friend" to make some quick content updates from within the Bulk editor console when I noticed something was not right. (I had...

29-Nov-2013

Technology

AEM startup on System Boot in Linux

If you want to make your CQ/AEM instance start on system boot in Windows Operating System, I am sure you will find a lot of documentation on that. Even Day (now Adobe) has a page on installing CQ as a Window service. But you will hardly find any page on making your CQ/AEM instance start on system boot in Linux Operating System. I was...

by Ankur Mittal
Tag: AEM
17-Oct-2013