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Installing Bundles by Runmode

If I had a dollar for every bundle configuration I've looked at where there was a little checkbox titled "Enabled", I'd have, like, maybe $31 dollars and I could afford a new Indie Steam game or perhaps 12 of them if I waited for the summer or holiday sales... In...

August 30, 2015 By Josh Boyle best practice, bundle, runmode 0 Comments Read more...

August Webinar-Stravaganza!

Tis the season for webinars! 6D will be presenting some great webinars in August. 6D DPS Entitlement System Webinar Tuesday, August 18, 201512:30-1:00pm EST / 9:30-10:00am PST First up, Jason Porath and Charlie Wagner will be leading a webinar introducing the new 6D DPS Entitlement System. This product integrates with Adobe’s DPS and Publish platforms...

August 6, 2015 By Center of Excellence Webinar, AEM 6, DPS 0 Comments Read more...

Fiddle or Servlet?

Introduced by Adobe Consulting is an extremely useful set of tools for AEM. If you haven't installed them already, I'd highly recommend it: ACS Tools Of particular note herein is the AEM Fiddle tool. Whereas we have wonderful free tools on the web such as JSFiddle or Codepen wherein we...

July 28, 2015 By Josh Boyle AEM 6.1, fiddle, servlet 0 Comments Read more...

Hooking up OAuth to DPS

One goal of pairing OAuth with an Adobe DPS app is to create a smooth transition between a 3rd party login (such as Salesforce, Twitter, or Facebook) and the private or subscriber-only folios in your DPS app. The reality is that the developer is often on the hook for a...

July 20, 2015 By Charlie Wagner DPS, OAuth, Entitlement Server 0 Comments Read more...

Three AEM / DPS Tips

I recently created a reference integration between Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and Adobe Digital Pubishing Suite (DPS). AEM 6.1 ships with an integration between the two tools, along with a reference implementation, Geometrixx Media. This is a very exciting solution, as it allows non-technical authors to publish content to DPS apps. The AEM...

July 13, 2015 By Center of Excellence AEM 6.1, DPS, Best Practices 0 Comments Read more...

The Communication Firehose

There is a dramatic increase of usage for the term “omni-channel” or “multichannel” marketing. It’s truly the hot button term today. Is it really good for your customers? And therefore your bottom-line? Wikipedia defines omni-channel as … …the use of a variety of channels in a customer's shopping experience including...

June 30, 2015 By TJ Iaciofano Omni-Channel Marketing, MultiChannel Marketing, Marketing Strategy 0 Comments Read more...

How to add AEM Dependency that is missing from public repository

So you just updated to the nice and shiny AEM 6.1, looking at new functionality and exploring around. Then you decide to tap into the new api documentation. Then reality comes back in, the boss wants to connect a new product into AEM 6.1. Too easy! I'll use a custom...

June 26, 2015 By Center of Excellence AEM6, AEM 6.1, Apache Maven 0 Comments Read more...

New in Apache Sling: FSClassLoader Console

In AEM 6.1, the default repository based ClassLoader was replaced with the new FSClassLoader (File System ClassLoader). This ClassLoader offers higher performance and throughput, however it removes a valuable tool for developers to debug errors in JSP scripts. In previous versions of AEM, developers could navigate to /var/classes and drill...

June 23, 2015 By Center of Excellence Apache Sling, AEM 6.1 0 Comments Read more...

Changing User Passwords in AEM 6.1 via cURL

In AEM 6.1, there have been a number of changes make to the structure of users. In older versions of AEM, users could be found under a directory structure based on thier user name. For example the user admin, would be found at /home/users/a/admin, in AEM 6.1, this has been changed,...

June 3, 2015 By Center of Excellence AEM 6.1, Bash, Permissions 0 Comments Read more...

Agile Best Practices Webinar

This webinar covers approaches and best practices in running projects in an Agile Methodology, including: Agile vs Waterfall Agile Terms Project Lifecycle User Story Cycle Lifecycle Retrospectives This webinar gives a great outline of how to run agile projects and the agile methodology, explaining the best practices and providing recommendations...

June 2, 2015 By Tim Morris Agile, Best Practices, Project Management 0 Comments Read more...

Welcome AEM 6.1!

Adobe just announced the release of the latest version of Adobe Experience Manager, AEM 6.1. 6D Welcomes AEM 6.1! In celebration of the release of AEM 6.1, 6D's Thought Leaders have contributed a number new posts. Improvements to Touch UI in AEM 6.1 Center of Excellence New in AEM 6.1:...

May 28, 2015 By Center of Excellence AEM6, AEM 6.1 0 Comments Read more...

Three New Time-Saving Features in AEM 6.1

At Adobe Summit 2015, Irina Guseva and Cedric Huesler hosted a session titled "What’s New in AEM Sites 6.1: Top 10 Hottest Features." The first feature on their list of 10 is “Are We There Yet?” and describes features that have been added to AEM’s Touch-Optimized UI. The techniques available...

May 28, 2015 By Victoria Pershick AEM 6.1, AEM6, Authoring 0 Comments Read more...

Repository runmodes now tied to instance runmode.

In AEM/CQ versions past, as in prior to AEM 6.0 and 6.1, if a publish instance was to go down and time was of the essence, you could always shutdown the author and copy the author repository over top of the publish repository. Once you brought up the publish instance, it would behave like a publish instance and you'd have all the content of the author instance with no need for long and costly activation...

May 28, 2015 By Dwayne Hale AEM6, AEM 6.1, DevOps 0 Comments Read more...

Whats New in 6.1: Layouting Mode

Responsive Design has been a must have since the web was accessible on the go. Normally Responsive Design calls for many layers of CSS or a premade javascript based framework. In AEM 6.1, Adobe has added a new feature in an effort to reduce design induced headaches. Layouting Mode is...

May 28, 2015 By Spenser Kern AEM 6.1, AEM6, Authoring 0 Comments Read more...

New in AEM 6.1: Human Translation API

When AEM 6.0 was introduced, we we were excited to present a webinar on Six Dimensions's contributions to the new Translation API in Adobe Experience Manager. Now, with the release of AEM 6.1, we're excited to introduce Six Dimension's latest contribution in supporting the new AEM Translation API with support for...

May 28, 2015 By Center of Excellence Translation, Localization, i18n 0 Comments Read more...