Experience & Content Fragments

Experience Fragments

• since AEM 6.3
• resuse content across pages (and 3rd party systems)
• mechanism that allows to create a content in one place and then display it in different sites by Experience Fragment Component that references the original data source
• standard usage is navigation/footer - build it once and then reuse on all pages
• can be directly published to social media
• presentation-centric

Content Fragments

• Content Fragment Models define the elements (or fields) that define what content the Content Fragment may capture and expose.
• The Content Fragment is an instance of a Content Fragment Model that represents a logical content entity.
• Content Fragment variations adhere to the Content Fragment Model, however, have variations in content.
• Can be used on site via AEM Content Fragment Component
• Can expose data to 3rd party services as JSON
• Capture pure data (separated from the presentation)
• Tools -> Assets -> Content Fragments - to create content fragments model'
• Content fragment component can be created under assets (parent node must have a config that allows content fragments)
• Editing content fragment model similar to editing metadata schema for asset
• Content fragment model -> a definition of data format, Content Fragment -> an instance of content fragment model with all data populated (class -> instance of a class relation).

Documentation

• Using Experience Fragments
• Understand Content Fragments and Experience Fragments
• Content fragments authoring