Generate Content Reports In AEM 6.4 Using AEM ACS Commons Utility

Adobe consulting services(ACS) provides a set of utilities which extends the capabilities of AEM. This additional features helps the site administrator/content managers. These tools are further extensible for specific needs.

List of ACS AEM Commons tools are given below.

• Generic Lists - Helps to create custom lists
• Reports - Helps to create, execute and view reports
• Audit log search - Search for audit log events
• Content Packagers - create query, ACL and authorizable packages
• Automatic package replication - tooling to automatically replicate AEM packages.
• Dispatcher Flush - Manually flush the AEM Dispatcher cache
• Version Replicator - replicate specific version of content
• Version compare - compare AEM page version content and structure
• Redirect Maps - Define redirect Apache https redirect maps
• Page Compare - Compare AEM Page content and structure
• Manage Controlled Processes- Execute and monitor a suite of provided tasks
• JCR Compare: Compare JCR Content trees across AEM instances
• Bulk workflow manager- Execute AEM workflow at scale
• System Notification - Notify AEM users of important AEM Events
• Workflow remover - Power tooling for Workflow instance remover
• Users to CSV Exporter - Export AEM users to CSV for reporting
• QR Code -  Quickly review published pages on mobile devices

In this post, we are concentrating on the 'Reports' tool which helps to create, execute and view reports based on our needs.

Introduction AEM Content Reports
Open Source AEM ACS commons project, provides AEM Content Reports which is available in version 3.14.0 and supported for AEM 6.3+. This is not an out of the box feature in AEM. This reports can be used to see various reports like,

• The user who has done some mistakes and caused to break the site,
• The user who has activated the home page without approval
• How many pages use the article component which may be deprecating in this release
• How many pages still need to activate in IT site

Content managers need this reports to get a detailed view on the activities happening on the site. This reports provide Web view or csv download options. Also this reports are sharable through links and can be saved for future use.

How to Install AEM Content Reports tool?

Install steps:

• Download ACS AEM Commons package: https://github.com/adobe-consulting-services/acs-aem-commons/releases
• Upload / install package in AEM through package manager
• Validate installation : Go to {host}:{port}/aem/start.html > Tools > ACS AEM COMMONS > Reports

List of available reports

We have options to

•     Create a report
•     Update a report
•     view a report
•     Execute the report
•     Download the CSV format report

 From above options, we can generate various reports by mentioning its corresponding parameters.

Sample Result from Content Reports: This report is generated from 'page report' option to list out all pages under '/content'

How to compare pages using ACS AEM Commons tools? Read This

We can configure any reports using below options :

•     Customizable queries and columns
•     supports user params

  
Extensible Model: This tools are customizable due to below reasons.

•     Built as AEM component
•     Java extensible APIs
•     Supports custom executors, params, columns and exporters

Advantage of AEM Content reports

We can have custom queries executed to generate reports, but the advantage of AEM Content report is given below.


A more detailed explanation is provided in the below video.

What is a Pattern Detector? Role of Pattern Detector in upgrading older AEM to 6.4 version.

Pattern Detector helps in assessing the complexity of AEM upgrades.

How the Pattern Detector works?
Pattern detector scan the existing code base before upgrade to ensure that there are no code breakers involved in current code base. After scanning, Pattern Detector provides a set of action items to fix if any issues found. This includes detailed report of violation explanations and remediation guidance.

How this is helpful?
AEM 6.4 reserves some of the paths and reserved granite codes for internal AEM use only. So Pattern Detector checks any such paths which may be over written by upgrade, also any API which may not be compatible with 6.4 version. Pattern detection is a mandatory step for upgrading to AEM 6.4

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Install & configure Pattern Detector:

The installation & configuration steps can be found here

The Pattern detector is available for versions AEM 6.1, AEM 6.2, AEM 6.3, which is downloadable using Adobe Id. This needs to be installed through AEM package manager.

Access & Analysis of report:
Go to configrMgr and select 'Status'> Pattern Detector. The reports are available in normal text or JSON formats.

Some of the Pattern detector sample codes are

• OCU - Depicts Deprecated usages
• ECU - Suspicious overlays, overrides, references
• LOCP -  Any packages that overwrites '/libs'
• NBCC - Non backwards compatible changes
• CAV - Directs to reduce the amount of overlayed content in general due to security problems

Usage Recommendations:
Pattern detector is recommended to use at stage environments to avoid any slowness in production environments.

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AEM 6.4 Features

Advantages of using Adobe Cloud Manager for AEM

Dynamic Media & Related Features in AEM 6.4

OVERVIEW  - AEM 6.4

Machine Learning Enabled Features in AEM

AEM 6.4 features which a developer must aware of

AEM 6.4 has a lot more features which directly enables the developers activities. Below given my first observation which may help a developer in his day to day activities while working with AEM 6.4. This list may not be complete but definitely gives a good idea about the new things.

There are cloud related upgrades, Fluid experience support, efficient utilization of content intelligence etc in 6.4

Key notes on new features:

Core module version changes

• AEM 6.4 build on top of updated versions of the OSGi-based framework (Apache Sling and Apache Felix)
• Java Content Repository has the latest version: Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.2
• The Quickstart uses Eclipse Jetty 9.3.22 as Servlet engine.

New Style System is available which allow users in Page Editor to select from a subset of styles via UI. The Core Components which were part of AEM 6.3, and now joined by the Style System, provides an efficient way to build new and extend existing sites.
Workflow model editor is now more user friendly.
Assets improvements related to machine learning like smart crop, smart tag, smart search etc reduces the manual activities drastically.

Some of the location/path changes to be noted are,

• Template design information location is moved from /etc/design to support sites specific settings in /conf. But clients who are moving from older version to new version can remain using /etc/design.

• Moved default location for segments into /conf to have site/context specific Segment lists.

Component & Template Development related upgrades

• Project Archetype 13+
• HTL version 1.3.1
• Core Components 2.0.4

There are a set of UI changes too.

• 'Content Tree' rail to quickly navigate a hierarchy
• Improved interaction with the search results
• Keyboard shortcuts, for most common actions
• Ability to enable/disable keyboard shortcuts

Content Fragments & Services, Experience Fragments

• Introduced Structured Content Models as foundation for content fragments.
• New Model editor UI is available with a Pre-configured data elements for content fragment models.
• Improved the usability of the AEM Content Fragment editor like Enhanced rich text editing capabilities, Full screen editing for single elements.
• Content Service is enhanced with JSON output via Sling Model Exporter.
• Integrated AEM Experience Fragments with Adobe Target.

Interested in taking a first look at AEM 6.4 UI and dash board? Watch this video.

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AEM 6.4 Features

Advantages of using Adobe Cloud Manager for AEM

Dynamic Media & Related Features in AEM 6.4

OVERVIEW  - AEM 6.4

Machine Learning Enabled Features in AEM

Content Reports AEM 6.4 

Page Compare reports AEM 6.4 

Videos:
Content reports

Page compare reports

AEM Assets Smart Search Capability with Apache Joshua

The latest AEM (AEM 6.4) provides a smart search capability for AEM Assets by translating the search terms. Let us understand more about this here.

What is Apache Joshua Language Packs ?
Wiki says "Apache Joshua is a statistical machine translation decoder for phrase-based, hierarchical, and syntax-based machine translation, written in Java". As of now it has around 64 language packs available.

The new AEM provides smart searches with language translation across AEM content & Assets. Which means when we do a search of term 'Man'(English)/'hombre'(Spanish)/'homme'(French) gives the same assets result which avoids the manual content translation.

How it works?
Apache Oak Machine Translation OSGi bundle once installed, helps to check feasibility of translating a search term utilizing registered language packs. On the back-end the Apache Joshua provides the language packs support.

Steps involved in search translation:

• User searches a English/ Non-English term in AEM search box
• With help of registered language packs the Apache Oak Machine Translation bundle provides a list of translated terms.
• Now each translated terms are executed as queries to AEM search index.
• The results are collected and displayed to user

AEM Smart Search Process

Pre-requisites for adding the functionality.
1) Apache Oak Search Machine Translation OSGi bundle must be installed and configured
2) Apache Joshua language packs(Open source) that contain the translation rules (Specific to our needs; If we need Spanish, we need to install Spanish Language Pack)

How to setup 'Smart Translation Search with AEM Assets'?

• Download and install the Oak Search Machine Translation OSGi bundle
• Download and update the Apache Joshua language packs
• Restart AEM - Ensure to update heap memory allocation
• Update OSGi configurations - To register the language packs via Apache Jackrabbit Oak Machine Translation Fulltext Query Terms Provider

Where do I get the language packs?
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/JOSHUA/Language+Packs

Where do I get Apache Oak Search Machine Translation OSGi bundle
Maven Repository

Show me the configuration at OSGi Level :
https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/kt/assets/using/smart-translation-search-technical-video-setup.html

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Interested in taking a first look at AEM 6.4 UI and dash board? Watch this video.

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AEM 6.4 Features

Advantages of using Adobe Cloud Manager for AEM

Dynamic Media & Related Features in AEM 6.4

OVERVIEW  - AEM 6.4

Machine Learning Enabled Features in AEM
 

Machine Learning Enabled Features in AEM

AEM version 6 onward utilizes the machine learning algorithms. Let us understand the major AEM features based on machine learning techniques.

Machine Learning in AEM

Smart Tags
 Deep learning based image tagging

Enhanced Smart Tags
 Adds ability to teach the smart Tagging feature to recognize your own concepts for eg logos

Smart Cropping
 Automatically identifies the most important parts of an image and crops appropriately

Smart Swatching
 Automatically identifies best/most representative region of image for color swatch

Smart Translation Search
 Does on-the-fly translation of search queries to support multiple language search

Smart Summarization
 Summarizes a text by identifying the most important sentences

Expert Scoring
 Identifies experts among community users

Spam detection for communities
 Automatically flags potential spam comments

Smart Forms Conversion(Tech preview for 6.4)
 Allows for semi-automation of forms conversion from any format to AEM format using deep learning

Smart Layout (Tech preview for 6.4)
 Suggests Layouts for different audiences based on KPIs and content understanding

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Interested in taking a first look at AEM 6.4 UI and dash board? Watch this video.

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AEM 6.4 Features

Advantages of using Adobe Cloud Manager for AEM

Dynamic Media & Related Features in AEM 6.4

OVERVIEW  - AEM 6.4

Machine Learning Enabled Features in AEM

Enterprise Digital Asset Management through AEM - The AEM 6.4 Assets New Capabilities

AEM Assets provide an option for digital asset creation , management and delivery. The new  and powerful intelligent asset management helps marketers and IT to organize, adapt, distribute rich media & experiences at scale across various customer journey.

Let us see the new AEM Asset features in detail.

Below given some of them.

Asset Management: Provides a place to manage, govern, and distribute assets across enterprise businesses, teams, projects, and customer channels.

Creative & Marketing Workflows: The new AEM provides deep connectivity across the Adobe Creative Cloud applications & services to uniquely source, scale, accelerate creative production.

Dynamic Media Transform & Delivery: The new dynamic media enables reuse of digital assets to rapidly adapt, compose, and deliver dynamic experiences with speed and impact.

Cloud & Open Architecture: The new AEM provides modern & scalable platform with a robust API & ecosystem, which helps to manage approved assets across any team and integrate with 3rd party applications.

Content Intelligence through Adobe Sensei - New AEM is easily integrated with Sensei, which has capabilities of machine learning and advanced algorithms to help organization discover hidden assets with auto-tagging, accelerate slow processes with automated workflows, and decide what matters with insights & analytics.

Digital Asset Management(DAM) Trends

Many organizations still lacking the capability of a true enterprise DAM even though they had a vision for an enterprise DAM or through multiple fragmented solutions.

Some of the common challenges which an organization faces are Unable to find assets, Increasing touchpoints, Duplicate assets, Slow rollout, efficiency Growing number of projects, collaborators, teams, Increasing creative costs, Global Sharing & Access Security & Compliance costs etc. These challenges could be over come through Creative & Marketing Workflows, Cloud solutions, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Integration & Openness.

What are all the new DAM capabilities in AEM Asset 6.4?

Creative Cloud Connectivity: Native Creative Cloud connector for Photoshop , Illustrator, & InDesign CC Adobe Stock Support through SSO. This also enables Search across AEM Assets and Creative Cloud Assets.

Smarter Asset Management

• Smart Tags: 'custom tags' - Adobe Sensei learns from the taxonomy and tags to assist with cataloguing, making assets more findable & reusable.
• Search: 'smart translation' - Use Machine Learning to auto-translate tags & search phrases on the fly
• Metadata: 'rules & bulk operations' - New admin tools for metadata schema rules, import/export of metadata
• Brand Portal: 'file sharing & distribution' - A secure, turn key cloud service for on demand asset distribution to internal teams, external partners,agencies,resellers. Quickly and cost effectively improve asset sharing efficiency, accelerate time to market, and reduce non-compliance and risk.

Media Transformation & Delivery
Smart Crop Emerging Media: 3D, VR, Panoramic media management &viewers, Experience Fragments support with Dynamic Media

Cloud Scale & Security - performance, scale and security for the most demanding businesses through integrated cloud.

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Can we use Auditor with AEM Sites? How to use Auditor with AEM Sites?

All Adobe Cloud hosted AEM sites can use Auditor service through their cloud platform. Let us understand Auditor in detail.

What is Auditor?
We all know an efficiently implemented software/website can bring best in class business for a customer.

Adobe provides unified platform for family of digital marketing solutions and services through 'Adobe Experience Cloud'. Through this interface we can quickly access the cloud solutions and related core services. One such core service is 'Activation'.

Auditor is a feature of the Activation Core Service which was co-developed with ObservePoint, who are one of the industry experts in validating digital implementations. Auditor access the Adobe Experience Cloud customers implementations and provide a report on the ways to improve it.

The three steps involved as part of Auditor analysis are,

Scan: This tool can scan 100 pages of Adobe technology at a time through this. There are a set of advanced filters to include or exclude pages.

Understand: From the report received, analyze the data in detail based on tag presence, configuration and consistency.

Improve: The report provides recommendations. Based on the recommended approach, follow the best practice and improve your implementation.

Who can get access to Auditor and what all we can do with Auditor?
All Adobe experience cloud customer have access to Auditor for auditing 100 pages. As of now analytics, Experience cloud ID Service, Media Optimizer, Target technologies can get scanned through Auditor.

How does the Auditor report look?
As of now the scanned report is a combination of URL's which were scanned and issues found vs recommendations at granular level. We can have the report downloaded in a spreadsheet format too. Report gives recommendations on 'how to improve your implementations to align with best practices'

How to run the scan?
From Adobe Experience Cloud navigation bar, follow below steps

• Click Activation
• Click Auditor
• Click New Audit
• Configure Scan: By providing a starting URL and clicking “Run Report”. An email will be received on completion.
• Understand: Either from clicking link in email or through dashboard, understand the report and take necessary action.

What if I need to scan more than 100 pages through Auditor?
Contact ObservePoint.

Does the tool scan behind authentication?
As of now the authentication behind screens are not included. You will need to contact ObservePoint for this.

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