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How to customize the page properties Dialog to include dynamic DropDownList in AEM/CQ5

This post will explain the details to customize page properties Dialog in both Touch and Classic UI's, the version used for implementing this is Adobe Experience Manager(AEM) 6.1.

The basic page properties dialog will be displayed if the sling:resourceSuperType of the page rendering component is specified as foundation page component(wcm/foundation/components/page for Sightly and foundation/components/page for JSP)

Steps to customize the basic page properties and including dynamic DropDownList to the dialog.

/apps/training/components/page-content/ will be referred as the page rendering component path in the post.

Classic UI:

Copy /libs/foundation/components/page/dialog to /apps/training/components/page-content/
Rename the new node to required name e.g. custom

Copy /libs/foundation/components/page/tab_basic to /apps/training/components/page-content/
Rename /apps/training/components/page-content/tab_basic to required name e.g tab_custom

Remove all the nodes under  /apps/training/components/page-content/tab_custom/items

Change path value in the node /apps/training/components/page-content/dialog/items/tabs/items/custom to /apps/training/components/page-content/tab_custom.infinity.json

Change title property of the node /apps/training/components/page-content/tab_custom to required value e.g Custom

Save All configurations

Open the page from site Admin(e.g. http://localhost:4502/cf#/content/training-site/en.html), now the new tab(Custom) will be added to the page properties with empty panel

Integration of Adobe Experience Manager(AEM) with Salesforce - Part1

• Lead Search
• Contact Search
• Export AEM user as Salesforce Lead
• Associate an AEM user with a Salesforce "Contact" or "Lead"

Defining the connected App in Salesforce:

A connected app integrates an application with Salesforce using APIs
Connected apps use standard SAML and OAuth protocols to authenticate and provide tokens for use with Salesforce APIs. The required security policies can be set to control the connected Apps access.

Login to Salesforce - login.salesforce.com
Click on the user name- Setup- Click on Create then Apps
Create New connected App
Enter the name and Email address

Time zone difference in Author/Publishers - Adobe CQ5/AEM

The timezone configured in the OS(Linux) level is CST but some time the log files displays the timezone in GMT

To fix the issue force the Adobe Experience Manager(AEM) server to use the required timezone in startup file(start.sh)
e.g.
CQ_JVM_OPTS='-server -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256M -Duser.timezone=US/Central -Djava.awt.headless=true'

How to protect the content from anonymous access through SAML based SSO - Adobe CQ5/AEM

How to enable SAML based SSO for publisher - Adobe CQ5/AEM
How to enable SAML based SSO in publisher to protect the content while accessing via dispatcher - Adobe CQ5/AEM

This post will explain the steps required to protect the published content from anonymous access through SAML based SSO while accessing via dispatcher/publisher - Adobe CQ5/AEM

Out of scope for this post - Configurations of IDP provider. Make sure the return URL configured in SAML provider is /saml_login

Enable Authentication for required content path:

Go to http://localhost:4503/system/console/configMgr(publisher)
Search for Apache Sling Authentication Service
Add the path that required the authentication to Authentication requirements in the following format +<<Content Path>> e.g. +/content/test

Configure the IDP certificate in Adobe Experience Manager(AEM):

Go to http://localhost:4503/system/console/configMgr(publisher)
Under /etc/key in the repository, create a node called "saml"(type nt:folder).
Inside this node, add a new binary property called  "idp_cert" for the public certificate of the IdP.
Upload the certificate file by double clicking on idp_cert property
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