Adobe SUMMIT 2017 - Lab 3846

Fuel your mobile apps with assets and content

This repository contains all the required content for completing the lab on your own instance of AEM 6.3.

Getting Started

• Copy your own AEM 6.3 quickstart JARs to the author and publish directories
• Install Xcode (Mac OS only see: Built for Mac OS section)
• Copy AEMM-Labs directory to your desktop
  • this is optional, but it makes the paths in the workbook correct
• Open the Workbook (PDF)
• Follow exercises in the workbook to complete lab goals

Enable Content Services in AEM 6.3

The Content Service features introduced in this lab are disabled by default in AEM 6.3. The features can be enabled via a feature flag however so that they can be evaluated.

• Go to: AEM Web Console
• Search for: AEM Content Services Feature Flag
• Check: Enable AEM Content Services
• Save

Modules

This lab consists of the folowing six modules.

Module 1: Setup and Introduction

• Start AEM author instance
• Start AEM publish instance
• Install initial content packages for lab to AEM
• Navigate to the Content Services app catalog

Module 2: Mobile App Management

• Create a new space
• Create a new content mobile app
• Change meta data of app
• Add spaces to app

Module 3: Extend Existing Content

• Create a new entity using built-in Page and Asset models
• Edit configuration of entity
• Preview generated data

Module 4: Managing Models

• Create a new group model
• Edit the group properties
• Create a new model based on primitive model type
• Define availability of model
• Add data types to model

Module 5: Managing Entities

• Create a new entity based on drink recipe model
• Edit properties of an entity
• Add references to other entities
• Preview completed entity
• Select single entity to publish
• Publish all entities under a space

Module 6: Mobile Application (optional)

• Publish all initial content required by mobile app
• Launch XCode and run mobile app
• Explore use of content services data in app
• Edit entity and publish
• View changes in mobile app

Issues?

Please log a Github issue on this project if errors are encountered.

Built for Mac OS

This lab was developed for the Mac operating system. If you do not have an OS X machine, you can install the packages in ./AEMM-Labs/L3846/packages onto your AEM author instance, and replicate them to publish. Furthermore, the included sample application is an Xcode project which can only be used on a Mac OS.

Need to Catch Up?

If you get stuck on a particular module and want to catch up to continue, there are severl catch up scripts included.

Each catch up script has the naming convention, install-moduleX.command. Where X is the module you are stuck on.

eg. ./AEMM-Labs/L3846/install-module2.command will update your AEM instance to include all the content added during Module 2.