This project leverages Adobe AEM Sites and AEM Forms to create a citizen facing web interfaces to provide online services.
The web interface is built using Adobe recommended best practices and leverages Government of Canada approved technology and UX standards.
The web interfaces includes the following:
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A set of AEM Sites WET compliant page templates and components that are using the latest Adobe Core Components. These WET compliant templates and components are used to build the informational part of the web interface.
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The templates are based on editable templates
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A set of AEM Forms WET compliant templates and components. These components are used to create the data capture/wizard interfaces to capture end-user data.
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A sample bilingual website structure that leverages AEM to maintain dependency between languages.
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A User service section that provides a list of available forms as well as forms that were submitted or saved as draft
Web Experience Toolkit (WET) includes reusable components for building and maintaining innovative websites that are accessible, usable, and interoperable (more details around WET can be found at https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew). Any web sites hosted for Government of Canada must create WET compatible HTML to meet WET accessibility requirements.
Purpose of this project is to allow AEM Authors to use “basic” set of Editable Templates / Core Components to create WET compatible pages.
Sample page created with the package:
Sample form created with the package:
Following is list of dependencies:
- Application is developed/compiled for AEM 6.5 SP7
- Corresponding AEM Forms add-on package should be deployed
- AEM Core Components package is included as part of ui.apps (current version is specified in “main” pom.xml)
- Required WET CSS/JS files are referenced from www.canada.ca
As part of initial setup, following packages should be deployed to AEM instance:
- ui.apps
- ui.content
The main parts of the application are:
- core: Java bundle containing all core functionality like OSGi services, Sling rewriter and component-related Java code.
- ui.apps: contains the /apps parts of the project, ie JS&CSS clientlibs, components, runmode specific configurations
- AEM Core Components are embedded and deployed as part of ui.apps
- Required WET CSS/JS files are referenced from www.canada.ca
- ui.content: contains editable template configuration and sample content using the components from the ui.apps
- Pages /content/uxp
- Assets /content/dam/uxp
- Forms /content/forms/af/uxp
- Ex. Fragments /content/experience-fragments/uxp
- Editable templates /conf/uxp
A zip version of the packages are available to download from https://github.com/adobe/aemwettemplates/releases.
They can be installed using AEM Package Manager. For more information on AEM Package Manager refer to https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-65/administering/contentmanagement/package-manager.html?lang=en#contentmanagement.
Note: Set JAVA_HOME to Java 1.8 To build all the modules run in the project root directory the following command with Maven 3:
mvn clean install
If you have a running AEM instance you can build and package the whole project and deploy into AEM with
mvn clean install -PautoInstallPackage
Or to deploy it to a publish instance, run
mvn clean install -PautoInstallPackagePublish
Or alternatively
mvn clean install -PautoInstallPackage -Daem.port=4503
Or to deploy only the bundle to the author, run
mvn clean install -PautoInstallBundle
The project comes with the auto-public repository configured. To setup the repository in your Maven settings, refer to:
http://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/kb/SetUpTheAdobeMavenRepository.html
Contributions are welcomed! Read the Contributing Guide for more information.
This project is licensed under the Apache V2 License. See LICENSE for more information.