Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Content Fragments allow you to design, create, curate and use page-independent content. They allow you to prepare content ready for use in multiple locations/over multiple channels.
Creating Content Fragments:
Before Creating content fragments, we need to create
configuration to enable Content Fragments. Below are the steps to create
configuration and create CF.
Steps 1: Enable configuration for Custom Content Fragments
2)
Click on Tools: Tools -> General -> Configuration
Browser
3)
Click on “Create” button and author title. And enable checkbox - Content Fragments
Models
Configuration
path will be something like “/conf/ContentFragments”
Step 2: Create Content Fragment Models
1)
Go to Tools -> Assets -> Content Fragment
Models
2)
You will be able to see the folder with name
created in Step 1 along with default one. Get into your folder.
3)
Create model by clicking on “Create” – Provide Title
and Description for your Model
4)
Once you create models, you will be able to see
them in folder as below.
5)
Edit the selected with required fields as below.
Steps 3: Enable
content Fragments Under Assets – Content fragments are considered as Assets.
1)
Goto Navigation -> Assets -> Files
2)
You can enable Content Fragments creation
capability to any folder you like within Files folder.
3)
Edit the properties folder for which you want to
enable CF
4)
Goto Cloud Services tab in edit properties mode
of folder
5)
Add path of configuration created in Step 1 - “/conf/ContentFragments”
Steps 4: Create CF under the folder where you enable CF in Step
3
1)
Click on create button and select Content
Fragment from list
2)
Select the model created in Step 2
3)
Provide the Title for CF. Description and tag as
optional
4)
Author content fragment as below
Once you follow these steps, CFs will be available for
authoring in pages.
Content Services: To make content fragments available to
consumed by the any service, need to follow below steps.
Step 1: Enable Editable template configuration
2)
Click on Tools: Tools -> General -> Configuration
Browser
3)
Click on “Create” button and author title. And
enable checkbox – Editable Templates
Configuration
path will be something like “/conf/Editable%20Templates”
Step 2: Crate Editable templates
1)
Go to Tools -> General -> Templates
2)
You will be able to see the folder with name
created in Step 1 along with default one. Get into your folder. Here “Editable Templates” folder name
3)
You can have custom template or you can use OOTB
templates. For now, we will use OOTB template
4)
Get into folder “Editable Templates” and
click on create button
5)
Select the template you want and provide required
information to create template. Once you create template, you will see
templates as below.
6)
Enable template created by clicking on button “enable”.
Step3 : Create pages under any desired content folder of
your choice
1)
Enable content folder under which Editable
templates should be available
Goto Page properties of folder add
allowedTemplate field. Usually it should be root page.
2)
Create page using templates and author content
fragments with in it.