Saturday, April 1, 2017

Generating the missing renditions for the Asset - Adobe CQ5/AEM

Generating the missing renditions for the Asset - Adobe CQ5/AEM

This post will explain the approach to generate the missing renditions for the asset(images) under a specific folder location in  Adobe Experience Manager(AEM)

Create a custom workflow with "Create Thumpnail" step


Edit "Create Thumpnail" step and configure the required renditions.


Servlet to re-generate the missing renditions:

Modify the workflow model path in the servlet with the actual path, the servlet is configured to handle the renditions 370.208 and 470.264(the same renditions are configured in the workflow). The code change is required to handle new renditions by the servlet.

Parameters:
path= the parent path of the assets(images) folder
test=true/false(true - Dry run, false - generate the renditions)

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

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

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

Friday, March 24, 2017

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

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

Adobe Experience Manager(AEM) Salesforce cloud connector can be used to integrate to Salesforce via connected App configured in the Salesforce

The Adobe Experience Manager(AEM) Salesfore integration supports the following functionalities:
  • Lead Search
  • Contact Search
  • Export AEM user as Salesforce Lead
  • Associate an AEM user with a Salesforce "Contact" or "Lead"
The connector can be extended to support the additional functionalities.


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

Thursday, March 2, 2017

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

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'

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

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

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
Save All


Tuesday, February 28, 2017

How to generate sitemap for multi site environments? - Adobe CQ5/AEM

How to generate sitemap for multi site environments? - Adobe CQ5/AEM

This post will explain how to generate the sitemap for different sites(home pages) in multi site environment of Adobe Experience Manager(AEM).

The sitemap will be generated dynamically whenever user access the sitemap URL for particular site.

Factory servlet to generate the sitemap.xml:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.*;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.xml.stream.*;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateFormat;
import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.*;
import org.apache.sling.api.*;
import org.apache.sling.api.resource.ResourceResolver;
import org.apache.sling.api.servlets.SlingSafeMethodsServlet;
import org.apache.sling.commons.osgi.PropertiesUtil;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.day.cq.commons.Externalizer;
import com.day.cq.wcm.api.*;

@Component(metatype = true, label = "Site Map", description = "Site Map", configurationFactory = true)
@Service
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
@Properties({
@Property(name = "sling.servlet.resourceTypes", unbounded = PropertyUnbounded.ARRAY,
label = "Homepage Resource Type", description = "Sling Resource Type for Home Page component"),
@Property(name = "sling.servlet.selectors", value = "sitemap", propertyPrivate = true),
@Property(name = "sling.servlet.extensions", value = "xml", propertyPrivate = true),
@Property(name = "sling.servlet.methods", value = "GET", propertyPrivate = true),
@Property(name = "webconsole.configurationFactory.nameHint",
value = "Site Map on resource types: [{sling.servlet.resourceTypes}]") })
public final class SiteMapGeneratorServlet extends SlingSafeMethodsServlet {

private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SiteMapGeneratorServlet.class);
private static final FastDateFormat DATE_FORMAT = FastDateFormat.getInstance("yyyy-MM-dd");
private static final boolean INCLUDE_LAST_MODIFIED_DEFAULT_VALUE = false;

@Property(boolValue = INCLUDE_LAST_MODIFIED_DEFAULT_VALUE, label = "Include Last Modified Date",
description = "If checked, last modified value will be shown in sitemap.")
private static final String INCLUDE_LAST_MODIFIED_PROPERTY = "include.lastmod";

private static final String SITEMAP_NAMESPACE = "http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9";

@Reference
private Externalizer externalizer;

private boolean incLastModified;

@Activate
protected void activate(Map<String, Object> properties) {
this.incLastModified = PropertiesUtil.toBoolean(properties.get(INCLUDE_LAST_MODIFIED_PROPERTY),
INCLUDE_LAST_MODIFIED_DEFAULT_VALUE);
}

@Override
protected void doGet(SlingHttpServletRequest slingRequest, SlingHttpServletResponse slingResponse)
throws ServletException, IOException {

slingResponse.setContentType(slingRequest.getResponseContentType());
ResourceResolver resourceResolver = slingRequest.getResourceResolver();
PageManager pageManager = resourceResolver.adaptTo(PageManager.class);
Page pageObj = pageManager.getContainingPage(slingRequest.getResource());

XMLOutputFactory outputFactory = XMLOutputFactory.newFactory();
try {
XMLStreamWriter stream = outputFactory.createXMLStreamWriter(slingResponse.getWriter());

stream.writeStartDocument("1.0");
stream.writeStartElement("", "urlset", SITEMAP_NAMESPACE);
stream.writeNamespace("", SITEMAP_NAMESPACE);

// Current page
writeXML(pageObj, stream, slingRequest);

for (Iterator<Page> children = pageObj.listChildren(new PageFilter(), true); children.hasNext();) {
Page childPage = (Page) children.next();
// If condition added to make sure the pages hidden in search in page properties do not show up in sitemap
if (null != childPage) {
if (!childPage.getProperties().containsKey("hideInSearch")
|| (childPage.getProperties().containsKey("hideInSearch")
&& childPage.getProperties().get("hideInSearch").equals("false"))
|| (childPage.getProperties().containsKey("hideInSearch")
&& childPage.getProperties().get("hideInSearch").equals("")))
writeXML(childPage, stream, slingRequest);
}
}

stream.writeEndElement();
stream.writeEndDocument();

} catch (XMLStreamException e) {
throw new IOException(e);
}
}

private void writeXML(Page pageObj, XMLStreamWriter xmlStream, SlingHttpServletRequest slingRequest)
throws XMLStreamException {
xmlStream.writeStartElement(SITEMAP_NAMESPACE, "url");

String protocolPort = "http";
if (slingRequest.isSecure())
protocolPort = "https";

String locPath = this.externalizer.absoluteLink(slingRequest, protocolPort,
String.format("%s.html", pageObj.getPath()));

writeXMLElement(xmlStream, "loc", locPath);

if (this.incLastModified) {
Calendar calendarObj = pageObj.getLastModified();
if (null != calendarObj) {
writeXMLElement(xmlStream, "lastmod", DATE_FORMAT.format(calendarObj));
}
}
xmlStream.writeEndElement();
}

private void writeXMLElement(final XMLStreamWriter xmlStream, final String elementName, final String xmlText)
throws XMLStreamException {
xmlStream.writeStartElement(SITEMAP_NAMESPACE, elementName);
xmlStream.writeCharacters(xmlText);
xmlStream.writeEndElement();
}

}

Create new servlet configuration from the factory through OSGI console by providing the following details

Home Page Resouce Type - add the Home page resource types that should be considered for generating sitemap.xml

Include Last Modified Date - If selected the last modified date of the page will be included as part of the sitemap.xml



Tuesday, February 21, 2017

How to exclude the replication agent from manual replication actions - Adobe CQ5/AEM?

How to exclude the replication agent from manual replication actions - Adobe CQ5/AEM?

Exclude the replication agent from manual replication actions in Adobe Experience Manager(AEM)- Sometimes we may required to exclude the specific replication agents from manual action but only the actions through workflow or API.

Enable "Ignore Default" in Triggers tab of Agent configuration wizard.