Extending AEM authoring experience through Javascript Extension

How can we let extension developer creating new Authoring Experience using our new UI Extensibility feature deployed as an AppBuilder extension? This practical presentation will go through a full use-case of integrating the AEM with Generative AI to generate assets.

This will cover all the tools that are available to our extensions developer.UI Extensions will enable you to modify the UI to display new components. Runtime will take care of the asynchronous communication to external systems. AppBuilder will make sure your extension is available to anyone in your organization.

The learning that we will conclude with is that it has never been this easy to augment your AEM Authoring experiences dynamically, without requiring deployment.

Henry Kuijpers

Does this only apply to Content Fragments UI and similar? (Adding custom "Content Finder" rail tabs etc (TouchUI /editor.html) is a pain, so it would be nice if we have something for that as well.)

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draganfill

Do we have to use AppBuilder, or Extensions can be created/integrated via custom implementation?

Tomasz S

You need to use app builder ( it works really well!) You don't need to use adobe io for backend though (but then you will have a bit of extra work with authentication)

felixdelval

Hum, good questions. In the end the only thing that makes an extension is using the uix-sdk client, have it hosted publicly. You would then need to register manually your extension with extension registry, I don't know if this API is documented publicly. This is the extension registry is the service we use when "publishing" an extension from console developer. In short probably, but you would loose of a lot of the added value of AppBuilder.

thh

Any plans for 6.5?

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Tomasz S

Is this documented ( extension points)?

felixdelval

Yes : https://developer.adobe.com/app-builder/docs/guides/extensions/ui_extensibility/

-achim

Are the API calls towards AEM running in the logged in user‘s context?

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Anian Weber

Is there any permission system behind the workspaces? AFAIK there is no way, and i fear, that a developer accidentally deployes into a production workspace.

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Konrad Windszus

What impact does e.g. the demo extension have on loading authoring UI?

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Would this method of extensibility (which appears to be AEMaaCS exclusive) not cause even more divide between the different AEM offerings?

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Can this type of extension be used in all author editors like workflow model editor or are there any limitations?

felixdelval

No, this is only for Content Fragment Admin and Content Fragment Editor with plans to include Universal Editors.