Integrate AEM Assets while authoring content for Edge Delivery Services integrate-aem-assets-with-edge-delivery-services
Edge Delivery Services is a composable set of services that allows for a high degree of flexibility in how you author and deliver content on your website. You can use both AEM content management and WYSIWYG authoring using the Universal Editor as well as Document-Based Authoring.
You can edit content in:
After editing the content, you can publish it to Edge Delivery Services.
Integrating AEM Assets with Document-Based Authoring flows for Edge Delivery Services integrate-dynamic-media-with-edge-delivery-services
When AEM Assets integrates with your Document-Based Authoring tools, such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs, it provides an asset selector in your authoring tool. Use this asset selector to access AEM Assets, and insert approved assets into your content.
If you already have an Edge Delivery Services website, see documentation to learn how to integrate AEM Assets with your existing AEM project.
Follow the following Prerequisites and Integrating AEM Assets with Document-Based Authoring environment sections if you do not have an Edge Delivery Services website to publish your AEM Assets inclusive content authored in document based authoring tools.
Prerequisites integrate-aem-assets-with-microsoft-word-and-google-docs
Before you begin, ensure that your Document-Based Authoring environment is ready:
- Integrate AEM with a Document-Based Authoring tool to set up the authoring environment. See to learn how to set up the authoring environment.
Integrating AEM Assets with Document-Based Authoring environment integrate-aem-assets-with-microsoft-word-or-google-docs-to-use-aem-assets-with-microsoft-word-or-google-docs
Configure the AEM Assets Sidekick plugin to use assets while authoring content in Microsoft Word or Google Docs.
- See to learn how to access and use AEM Assets in Microsoft Word or Google Docs.
- See for configuration details.
Deliver assets using Dynamic Media with OpenAPI capabilities integrate-Dynamic-Media-with-OpenAPI-capabilities-with-Microsoft-Word-Google-Docs-and-universal-editor
You can also use assets delivered using Dynamic Media with OpenAPI capabilities. It provides many benefits such as:
- Access to brand-approved assets only (images, videos, PDFs, and other asset types) from AEM Assets Cloud Services.
- Governance (references vs. copies of the asset), which helps with auto-propagation of asset lifecycle events like expiration, deletion, and updates.
- Dynamic image renditions and Smart Crop.
- Rich media optimization and delivery, such as adaptive video streaming out-of-the-box, and original asset delivery for PDFs.
- Asset-level impressions report (limited availability).
For more details on the capabilities, see Dynamic Media with OpenAPI capabilities documentation.
Prerequisites dynamic-media-with-universal-editor-and-edge-delivery-services
To use asset reference, you must have:
- Entitlement to an Assets Cloud Service environment where Dynamic Media with Open API capabilities is enabled.
- A Dynamic Media license.
- The AEM Assets sidekick plugin enabled with copy reference for image assets enabled. For more details, see for Document-Based Authoring and see for Universal Editor based authoring.
- Assets that are approved. Approved assets have
dam:status=Approvedvia the Assets Cloud Services backend or UI actions.
Use assets delivered using Dynamic Media with OpenAPI capabilities Using-Dynamic-Media-with-edge-delivery-services
Select the following links to learn how to use Dynamic Media with OpenAPI capabilities to deliver images, videos and other asset types in your content:
See this video to learn how to deliver assets in your content using Dynamic Media with OpenAPI capabilities.
Sample Edge Delivery Services site dynamic-media-with-google-docs-and-ms-word
See , a site that is built using the Document-Based Authoring capabilities of Edge Delivery Services. The site鈥檚 content is authored in and Dynamic Media with OpenAPI capabilities is used to deliver assets in the content. After authoring, the content is published from the document directly. Explore this to know about all the essential files, folders, configurations, website鈥檚 styling and functionality codes that are used to create the Document-Based Authoring setup for this Edge Delivery Services (EDS) site.
Integrating AEM Assets with Universal Editor based authoring flows for Edge Delivery Services integrate-aem-assets-with-universal-editor-UE
Set up the Universal Editor to integrate with AEM Assets. This integration enables you to use Dynamic Media with OpenAPI capabilities to deliver assets.
- See to learn how to add a custom asset picker function in Universal Editor. The custom asset picker enables you to insert assets into your Universal Editor content directly.
- See to learn how to access to AEM Assets and insert the assets while authoring in Universal Editor.