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Release date: Jan 19, 2023
What’s new
Status notifications are now available on Slack. With a one-time setup, you can add the Adobe Status Slack app to your Slack workspace and receive Status notifications in your Slack channel. Please use this link to manage your subscription preferences: https://status.adobe.com/proactive-notifications/manage.
Feature
Description
Slack notifications
We have introduced Slack as a new channel to receive Status notifications.
Subscribers can choose to receive Slack notifications in addition to email notifications.
One-time approval of Adobe Status Slack app by Slack workspace admin. After approval, users can add the Adobe Status Slack app to their Slack channels.
Multiple users can listen to one Slack channel right from where they work in their Slack Workspace.
Ability to quickly change a Slack channel association with Adobe Status Slack app from Manage subscriptions.
Enhanced Product-level reporting of incidents
Product impact details like Impact scope, Impact type, Impact updates, and Customer facing statements are uniquely reported per Product.
Email and Slack notifications follow the same format of product-level impact reporting.
Enhanced user experience and bug fixes
Canceled maintenances are reported correctly as Canceled instead of Completed.
Email notifications bug fixes and improvements.
Enhanced subscriptions with Product offerings update
Ability to subscribe to Adobe Campaign and Adobe Target at a granular level of Product Offerings on the Manage subscriptions page.
Experience Cloud interface and administration ecloud
Updates to Experience Cloud interface home, administration (product and user management), user profile settings, preferences, search, and cookies.
New features, fixes, and updates in Experience Manager. Adobe recommends customers with On-Premise deployments to deploy the latest patches to ensure higher stability, security, and performance.
AEM roadmaps and release videos
Adobe recommends visiting the following resources to stay updated on release information:
The Personalization Tab for Experience Fragments allows segmentation specification capabilities to the Experience Fragment Editor and the flexibility to create nested Experience Fragments. This lets headers and footers variations to be created for multiple segments. Before the launch of this feature, personalization offered by AEM is available only for site pages, but not for Experience Fragments
The Content Fragment Console now lets users efficiently manage translated content fragments. A one-click access is available to view all the language copies. Users can filter the table view by the locale of their interest.
Further reduce page load time for visitors by optimizing image sizes settings in templates. Find more information for the image component at Core WCM Component.
Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service
New feature
Experience Manager Assets now lets you upload documents in other supported format types and preview them using the included Document Cloud viewer. The supported format types include TXT, RTF, DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, and XLSX.
New feature available in prerelease channel
Experience Manager Assets now uses an improved artificial intelligence framework for image Smart Tags. This content intelligence results in better relevancy and precision of Smart Tags available to all image assets on ingestion. In addition, orientation information is populated in cq:tags, which enables better search results using the Orientation filter.
Experience Manager Assets now supports SAS Token in addition to the Access Key for authentication while connecting to Azure Blob Storage data source for ingesting assets using the Bulk Import tool.
Experience Manager Forms as a Cloud Service
New features
Adaptive Forms wizard: Experience Manager Forms provides business user friendly wizard to quickly author Adaptive Forms. The wizard has a quick tab navigation to easily select pre-configured template, styling, fields, and submission options to create an adaptive form. This release brings following improvements to the wizard:
Select or deselect fields: The wizard allows you to create an Adaptive Form based on JSON and Form Data Model schemas. You can now select subset of fields within a schema to include in an Adaptive Form. The selected fields are converted to corresponding Adaptive Form data capture components to quickly create the desired adaptive forms.
Use Static Templates: Customers with existing investments in legacy-static templates can continue their journey of cloud adoption by using static templates in the wizard to author adaptive forms. This provides additional time to customers to migrate old static templates to modern editable templates.
Remove hidden fields from a Document of Record (DoR) while server-side processing: You can generate the document of record PDF for end users containing only those fields which were visible to them during data capture experience. Upon form submission, the server validates which fields were hidden to the end user based on submitted data and excludes from document of record for consistency.
New features available in prerelease channel
Adaptive Forms template editor - Template editor lets you pre-define the basic structure and appearance of Adaptive Forms of an organization. This release brings following improvements to the template editor:
Form Data Model in template editor - You can associate a Form Data Model schema to an Adaptive Form template in the template editor. It helps reduce the time taken to create an Adaptive Form. The option is also added to Adaptive Forms editor to let users select or change Form Data Model for existing forms.
Document of Record in template editor - You can now standardize Document of Record generation for all forms created using a template. This ability helps enhance compliance and standardization for organization requirements.
Launch the Adaptive Form wizard from a AEM Sites Page - AEM Sites page has extended support for Adaptive Forms. You can now create a new Adaptive Form or embed an existing Adaptive Form while remaining on AEM Sites page.
Change display alignment for checkboxes and radio button in Document of Record: You can now set the desired alignment (Horizontal, Vertical, Same as Adaptive Forms) for checkbox and radio button on the Document of Record. This option determines the positioning of checkbox and radio button options in the Document of Record.
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Foundation
New features
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service (Author Service) is now integrated with Unified Shell to improve the user experience and unify it with all the other Experience Cloud applications. See Experience Manager as a Cloud Service on Unified Shell for more details.
As previously mentioned in the release notes, using the replication agent administrator screen or replication API for distributing content packages larger than 10 MB (nodes with properties, not including binaries) is deprecated. This limit will be enforced in the coming days. See Manage Publication or the Publish Content Tree workflow for the suggested approaches for replicating these large content packages.
Dispatcher configuration now references a file that lists common marketing campaign query parameters. Customers can choose to uncomment the parameters that are relevant to them, resulting in better caching. See Marketing campaign parameters for more details.
Cloud Manager
New features
Notifications for Experience Manager maintenance updates now appear in the Cloud Manager user interface. This change is being rolled out in a phased manner in the weeks following the 2022.12.0 release.
When an ingestion by way of the CTT (Content Transfer Tool) is in progress, the environment status in both the developer console and in Cloud Manager now displays as Ingestion in Progress.
Workfront for Experience Manager enhanced connector
The release date for the latest version 1.9.6 of the Workfront for Experience Manager enhanced connector was December 09, 2022. See the Release Notes for more information.
The latest version of the Workfront for Experience Manager enhanced connector includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:
Enhancement
Workfront enhanced connector now supports performing full-text search on assets and folders.
Bug fixes
The Document Version metadata does not synchronize appropriately between Workfront and Experience Manager.
Issues while creating a folder that is linked to Experience Manager in Workfront when the folder is using a schema that is missing definition in the global configuration.
The metadata schema editor form stops responding when you click any field due to a load time that is longer than expected. Added specific OSGi configuration for custom forms to resolve the issue. The names of the custom forms that you add to the metadata schema editor are available in the logs.
Upcoming Experience Manager GEMs webinar:Accelerating Experience Manager as a Cloud Service development with Rapid Development Environments. Register here.
Recorded Experience Manager GEMs webinar:Experience Manager Best Practices Analyzer for On-premise and AMS (Adobe Manage Services) environments is now available.
Adobe Experience Manager Community Lens: Highlights the latest updates from the Experience Manager Community, all in one place. Read the 4th edition now.
New Experience Manager courses and tutorials tutorials-aem
New videos, tutorials, and courses published over the past month.
Explore how an external application can programmatically authenticate and interact with AEM as a Cloud Service over HTTP using Local Development Access Tokens and Service Credentials.
Explore AEM Headless GraphQL APIs ability to list data using a SvelteKit app. This SvelteKit app creates a list of WKND adventures, that can be selected to display the adventure’s details.
Explore AEM Headless GraphQL APIs ability to filter data using an Express and Pug app. This Express app creates a list of WKND adventures filterable by Activity Type.
Experience Manager Guides is an application deployed onto AEM. It is a powerful, enterprise-grade component content management solution (CCMS) which enables native DITA support in Adobe Experience Manager, empowering AEM to handle DITA-based content creation and delivery.
Adobe Search&Promote end-of-service occurred September 1, 2022. For product and commerce search, Live Search is Adobe’s search application. See the end-of-life announcement for more information.
New tutorials and documentation for Adobe Commerce tutorials-commerce
The Configuration guide provides reference material and limited guidance for managing the configurable Commerce application features and services. Technical users who are responsible for configuring the Commerce application can find guidance for deployment methods, caching options, cron job management, command-line usage, search engine settings, storage methods, and more.
The Adobe Commerce on Cloud Infrastructure Guide provides reference material and guidance for technical users that are using the automated hosting platform to build, deploy, and manage the Commerce application in a cloud-native environment.
Learn about Developer App Builder and how it can provide custom, unique functionality to your Adobe Commerce store without requiring in-process methods.
Adobe Campaign provides an intuitive, automated way to deliver one-to-one messages across online and offline marketing channels. You can now anticipate what your clients want using experiences determined by their habits and preferences.
New Campaign tutorials and courses tutorials-campaign
New videos, tutorials, or courses published for Adobe Campaign.
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Type
Description
Applications
February 2023
Ten best practices for Adobe Campaign success for marketers
Article
Learn the ten best practices to help Adobe Campaign practitioners unlock and accelerate the digital consumer transformation and a better experience for their customers.
With Journey Optimizer, you can manage scheduled omnichannel campaigns and one-to-one moments for millions of customers from a single application–and the entire journey is optimized with intelligent decisioning and insights.
Use Experience Platform to orchestrate a customer’s journey at scale across experience channels, by intelligently anticipating every individual’s needs in real time.
Marketo Engage is a complete application for lead management and B2B marketers looking to transform customer experiences by engaging across every stage of complex buying journeys.
(February 3 release; beta features) You can now view change logs in chart form, and you can add notes to any entry.
New features in Advertising Search advertising-search
Last updated: February 10, 2023
Feature
Description
Campaigns
(February 6 release; beta feature) Read-only sync support is now available for your Google Ads discovery campaigns. Discovery campaigns have Campaign Type “Discovery,” Ad Group Type “Discovery,” and Creative Type “Discovery Ad” (for single-image ads) or “Discovery Carousel Ad” (for multi-image carousel ads). You can include discovery campaigns in standard and hybrid portfolios.
Ad-level data for your discovery campaigns is available in reports. For advertisers with an Adobe Analytics integration, ad-level data is available in Analytics. Similarly, Analytics data is available in Search; the data is sent using the upgraded s_kwcid tracking parameter, regardless of the s_kwcid format you normally use for the account. If you normally use the older version of the s_kwcid, then your click/cost data and revenue data are tracked using different s_kwcids, but both sets of data are fully classified and aggregated under the same campaign and account.
(Google Ads accounts; February 11 release) Support for the “Target Impression Share” bid strategy is now available for campaigns on the search network only. For this bid strategy, Google Ads (not Search) optimizes bids in order to achieve a target impression share and ad position. You can optionally enter a Target Impression Share as a percent, the Target Ad Position, and a Max CPC (cost per click). This option isn’t yet supported in hybrid portfolios.
Bulksheets
(Microsoft campaigns; February 11 release) Bulksheets now include “Call to Action” and “Call to Action Language” columns for multimedia ads (in responsive ad format), which use the “Creative (except RSA)” row.
Document Cloud doc-cloud
New tutorials and courses published for Document Cloud, including Document Services and Acrobat Sign.
Are you new to using Acrobat Sign? This comprehensive tutorial is a great place to start because it focuses on all the basics to get you up and running quickly with Acrobat Sign.
Customer Data Management Voices is your destination as a customer data management technical and marketing practice leader and specialist. This collection of tutorials is your one-stop-shop to hear from your peers, get inspired, and learn about developments in MarTech. No registration required, simply click and watch.
Digital Experience Blueprints blueprints
Digital Experience Blueprints are repeatable implementations that let you address strategy and quickly solve established business problems. Each Blueprint provides a series of artifacts that explain the high-value business problem, architectures, implementation steps, technical considerations, and links to the relevant documentation.
