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: CQ5
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: CQ5
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: CQ5
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: CQ5
26-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: CQ5
27-Feb-2014

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...

by ashish.panwar
Tag: CQ5
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: CQ5
17-Oct-2013

Technology

AEM Dispatcher setup for Linux

Installing dispatcher for AEM in Apache Web-server in Linux may get little tricky, as documentation provided by Adobe on Installation of Dispatcher in Linux is not sufficient, and if we take it in analogy and try doing same way we do in Windows, then we face some issues locating the appropriate files. Prerequisites for Dispatcher...

by Ankur Mittal
Tag: CQ5
14-Oct-2013

Technology

IntelliGrape at Evolve 2013

EVOLVE’13 - The Adobe CQ Community Technical Conference - a community-based 3-day event that ran from August 26-28th at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego. The conference witnessed Marketing and IT VPs, Project Managers, CQ Architects, BAs and CQ/Java Developers from around the world. Myself, Ankur Mittal  and Abhinit Bhatnagar attended...

by Ankur Mittal
Tag: CQ5
12-Sep-2013