AEM Training from DASVM Technologies teaches you the essential skills needed to develop and debug Adobe Experience Management through best practices. In this AEM course, you’ll learn the advanced methods used for developing websites being an AEM developer. The training starts with AEM basics and dives into central concepts like architecture, installation, features, using AEM with Maven and VLT, etc.  Adobe Experience Manager is a content management solution that helps to build websites, different forms and mobile apps. The manager also makes the management of marketing content and assets easy. With the help of AEM, you can deliver lifetime value to your customer along with digital experiences so that it creates brand loyalty and drive more demand. It helps to stay consistent across different channels by delivering amazing content across websites and mobile.

Course Objectives:

After completing this course attendees should be able to:

• Adobe Experience Manager - 6.5.11 Service Pack
• All the AEM concepts required to work on real world projects
• All the authoring aspects including components, templates, workflows, etc.
• All the coding aspects including sling models, event listener, HTL, custom logger, etc.

Course content

Architecture and Concepts

• AEM Overview and architecture
• Basic Concept and Terminologies

Architecture Stack

• Basics of the Architecture Stack
• Introduction to the Granite Platform
• Introduction to the Java Content Repository
• Introduction to Apache Sling
• The Functional Building Blocks of Adobe Experience Manager

Installation

• What is Adobe Experience Manager?
• Prerequisites
• Installing Adobe Experience Manager on Your System
• Starting an Adobe Experience Manager Instance
• Using the GUI to Start an Adobe Experience Manager Instance
• Using the Command Line to Start Adobe Experience Manager Author Instance
• Using the Command Line to Start Adobe Experience Manager Publish Instance

Lab:

• Task – Start an Adobe Experience Manager Author instance
• Task – Start an Adobe Experience Manager Publish instance
• Task – Start and install Adobe Experience Manager using command line

Authoring Basics

• Introduction to Touch UI
• Creating and Editing Pages
• Creating Pages
• Editing Pages

Developer Tools

• The Web Console
• CRXDE Lite
• Working with Packages
• Creating and Building New Packages
• Downloading packages to your file system
• Using the Package Share

Lab:

• Task – Install a package in Adobe Experience Manager
• Task – Create, Build, and Download a Package
• Configuring Your Project

Lab:

• Task – Make changes to the repository using Brackets
• Best Practices in Development

Introduction to Content Rendering

• Folder Structure of the Repository

Lab:

• Task – Create the project structure in /apps
• Page Rendering Components

Introducing to AEM Core Components

• Understanding the Sling Resolution Process
• Basic Steps of Processing Requests
• Decomposing the URL
• Mapping Requests to Resources
• Locating and Rendering Scripts
• Understanding URL Decomposition

Lab:

• Task – Create a page-rendering component
• Task – Create content to be rendered
• Task – Basic Sling resource resolution and mapping to a rendering script
• Task – Selector Manipulation

Templates

• What is a template?
• Properties of a Template

Lab:

• Task – Create a Template
• Task – Test the content page template
• Task – Restrict Template Use
• Task – Add Content Structure to the Template
• Creating the Website Structure

Lab:

• Task – Create the pages for the site

Introduction to Sightly

• Working with Sightly
• Sightly Syntax
• Page-rendering Scripts
• Use APIs to Display Basic Page Content
• Modularize the Page Component

Lab:

• Task – Render Basic Page Content
• Task – Modularize the content page component

Inheritance

• Inheriting Foundation Components
• Types of Hierarchies
• Extra Credit Task – Build the rendering chain

Lab:

• Task – Investigate the content page sling: resource Super Type property
• Task – Investigate the Foundation Page Component
• Task – Delete the content page

Design and Styles

• Adding a design to your site

Lab:

• Task – Define a design
• Task – Modify the content page component to call in the design
• Task – Assign a design to the website

Authoring Structure Components

• Creating a Top Navigation Component
• Extra Credit task

Lab:

• Task – Create a simple Navigation component
• Task – Make the Navigation Component Responsive
• Task – Create a complex navigation component with a Java Helper
• Task – Create a complex Navigation component with a JavaScript Helper
• Task – Create a custom Log File
• Task – Use log statements in the topnav Component
• Extra Credit task – Add logging to the Java helper
• Component Dialog Boxes
• Understanding the types of Dialog Boxes
• Classic UI Dialog Box
• Touch-Optimized UI Dialog Boxes
• Difference Between Granite UI and Classic UI Dialog Boxes

Lab:

• Task – Create a Title Component
• Task – Create a dialog box for the Title Component
• Using EditConfig to Enhance a Component

Lab:

• Task – Create editConfig for the Title Component
• Task – Use the Title Dialog
• Use Design Dialog Boxes for Global Content

Lab:

• Task – Add a Design Dialog
• Task – Modify Title component code to use design dialog
• The File Upload Form Field

Lab:

• Task – Create an initial Hero Image Component
• Task – Create a Dialog for Author Input
• Task – Modify the text feature of the Hero Component
• Task – Test the Hero Component
• Task – Modify the Hero Component to display an Image
• Extra Credit Task – Drag and Drop images into Hero component

Lab:

• Task – Create a Design Dialog for the Hero Component

The Responsive Grid

• Pros and Cons of Responsive Design

Lab:

• Task – Add the Responsive Grid
• Task – Enable the Responsive Emulator
• Task – Integrate Layouting Mode

Internationalization (Globalization/Localization)

• Internationalizing the Authoring Interface
• Mixin nodes

Lab:

• Task – Create the localization information
• Task – Create the content to be localized
• Task – Test the localized content

Advanced Sling Functionality

Lab: Sling Selectors

• Task – Investigate the Print Friendly button
• Task – Create the print
• Overlays and Sling Resource Merger
• Overlays 136
• Sling Resource Merger
• Comparing Overlays with Sling Resource Merger

Lab: Sling Resource Merger

• Task – Modify a Navigation Button

Lab: Custom Error Handlers

• Task – Create a custom 404 Error Handler

Lab: Sling Redirect

• Task – Make we-train

Complex Components

Lab: Create a Complex Component

• Task – Create the initial StockPlex component
• Task – Enable the Stockplex component
• Task – Add a place holder
• Task – Build out the dialog box
• Using Client Libraries
• Client or HTML Libraries
• Client Library Conventions
• Examples of Client Libraries
• Include Client Libraries

Lab: Client Libraries

• Task – Add the client libraries
• Task – Extend the Dialog box to provide the author with more options
• Task – Add a Design Dialog box

Lab: Search Component

• Task – Create a search component

Debugging and Testing

• The Developer Mode
• Parameter Debugging
• Performing Hobbes Test

Lab:

• Task – Create the Client Library
• Task – Run the Hobbes testing suite

Other Concepts

• MSM Concepts
• Editable Templates in AEM and Style System
• Content Fragements and Experience Fragements
• Angular JS integration with AEM

AEM Cloud Concepts

• AEM cloud Overview
• AEM Cloud SDK Installation Steps and Settings
• Difference between AEM on Premise vs AEM Cloud
• Multifield Settings and how to use it
• Third Party API integrations in AEM
• Granite types and Widget Settings

Junit

• Introduction to Junit
• Unit Testing in AEM
• Installing Junit and important settings
• Junit testing example Lab Activity

Adobe Experience Manager Environment

• Performance Consideration
• Performing Security Checks
• AEM Deployment
• Introduction to Replication
• Introduction to Reverse Replication
• Introduction to Dispatcher

Lab:

• Task – Monitor Page Response
• Task – Find the Response Performance
• Task – Monitor component-based timing

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