Basic Handling basic-handling
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This page is designed to give an overview of basic handling when using the Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) author environment. It uses the Sites console as a basis.
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Some functionality is not available in all consoles and additional functionality is available in some consoles. Specific information about the individual consoles and their related functionality is covered in more detail on other pages.
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Keyboard shortcuts are available throughout AEM. In particular when using consoles and editing pages.
The Welcome Screen the-welcome-screen
The classic UI provides a selection of consoles, using well-known mechanisms for navigating and initiating actions, including click, double-click, and context menus.
Following login, the Welcome screen is shown. It provides a list of links to consoles and services:
Consoles consoles
The main consoles are:
The Websites console provides two panes for you to navigate and manage your pages:
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Left pane
This shows the tree structure of your websites and the pages within those websites.
It also shows information about other aspects or AEM, including projects, blueprints, and assets.
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Right pane
This shows the pages (at the location selected in the left pane) and can be used to take action.
From here you can manage your pages using either the toolbar, a context menu or by opening a page for further actions.
Accessing Help accessing-help
On various consoles (for example, Websites), a Help button is available. Clicking Help opens either Package Share or the documentation site.
When editing a page, the sidekick also has a button for accessing help.
Navigating with the Websites Console navigating-with-the-websites-console
The Websites console lists your pages of content in a tree structure (left-hand pane). For ease of navigation, sections of the tree structure can be expanded (+) or collapsed (-) as required:
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Clicking the page name in the left pane does the following:
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Lists the child pages in the right pane
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Expands the structure in the left pane.
For performance reasons, this action depends on the number of children nodes. With a standard installation, this method of expansion works when there are
30
or fewer child nodes.
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Double-clicking the page name (left pane) expands the tree, though as the page is opened at the same time this effect is not so obvious.
30
) can be changed per console in your application-specific configurations of the siteadmin widget:treeAutoExpandMax
on:
/apps/wcm/core/content/siteadmin
Set the value of:
TREE_AUTOEXPAND_MAX
in:
/apps/cq/ui/widgets/themes/default/widgets/wcm/SiteAdmin.js
Page Information on the Websites Console page-information-on-the-websites-console
The right pane of the Websites console provides a list view with information about pages:
The following are available; a subset of these fields is shown as default:
The colors next to pages in the Published and Modified columns indicate publication status:
Context Menus context-menus
The classic UI uses well-known mechanisms for navigating and initiating actions, including click and double-click. Depending on the current situation, a range of context menus (opened with the right-mouse-button) are also available: