Documentation

Helpful guides for your journey with Adobe Experience Manager

Build

Developer Tutorial

This tutorial will get you up-and-running with a new project.

Anatomy of a Project

Discover how a typical project should look from a code standpoint.

Block Collection

A collection of blocks considered a part of the product and are recommended as blueprints for blocks in your project.

Spreadsheets

Microsoft Excel workbooks and Google Sheets are translated into JSON files that can easily be consumed by your website or web application.

Indexing

How to keep an index of all the published pages in a particular section of your website.

Keeping it 100

The quality of the experience of consumers of your website is crucial to achieving the business goals of your website and the satisfaction of your visitors.

Markup - Sections

The markup and DOM are constructed in a way that allows flexible manipulation and styling.

Favicon

Adding a favicon to your site gives it a professional look in your visitor’s browsers.

Custom Headers

Learn how to apply custom HTTP response headers to resources, for example to allow CORS.

Development Collaboration and Good Practices

Become a better developer and team mate with these tips from successful AEM project leads.

Publish

Authoring

If you use Microsoft Word or Google Docs, then you already know how to create content.

Bulk Metadata

In some cases, it is useful to apply metadata en masse to a website.

Slack Bot

We are available to you on Slack, and our Slack Bot can perform useful tasks.

Placeholders

Placeholders can be managed as a spreadsheet that is either in the root folder of the project or in the locales root folder in the case of a multilingual site.

Sitemap

Automatically generate sitemap files to be referenced from your robots.txt. This helps with SEO and the discovery of new content.

Launch

Go Live Checklist

The go-live checklist is a summary of best practices to consider when launching a website.

Push Invalidation

Automatically purge content on your production CDN, whenever an author publishes content changes.

Cloudflare Worker Setup

Learn how to configure Cloudflare to deliver content.

Akamai Setup

Discover how to use the Akamai Property Manager to configure a property to deliver content

Fastly Setup

This guide illustrates how to configure Fastly to deliver content.

CloudFront Setup

Set up Amazon Web Services Cloudfront to deliver your AEM site with push invalidation

Bring your own DNS

A custom domain without having to set up a content delivery network.

Redirects

You can intuitively manage redirects as a spreadsheet called redirects (or redirects.xlsx) in the root of your project folder.

Resources

Sidekick

Install the AEM Sidekick to author and publish with Adobe Experience Manager.

FAQ

Answers to your other questions in one place.

Admin API

Reference documentation for the Admin API.

AEM Status

Check if Adobe Experience Manager sites are available right now and confirm service level availability.