Tuesday 27 June 2017

How to create a Content Fragment? step by step tutorial

Content Fragment helps to author content without creating a Page. Content Fragments are useful in displaying content across channels like web pages, mobile apps or campaigns.

What are all, a Content Fragment can hold?

Content Fragment has well defined content structure, which can hold text segments and references to assets, likes images, videos etc.

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Creating Content Fragments

To start with , go to Assets > Files > Click on Create , Content Fragment



Select the template as shown(Default Simple Fragment Template). We can either have our new templates created based on the content requirement or use the default one.



In 'Properties' section fill up the basic details of this fragment.



Advanced section will have an auto populated name. We can edit it in case we need our custom property/url here.



Click on 'Create' will show you the success message as shown below. On clicking 'Done' will show the new Content Fragment.



The created Content Fragment can be downloaded as shown below. The downloaded fragment can have all related information selected while creation. Unzipping the fragment displays the folder contents.



Unzipped file will have a metadata file with all information.



There are many options for a Content Fragment once created. The header bar will have options like download, checkout, edit, manage tags, adding collections publish, un-publish etc.



Edit options for a content fragment is quiet flexible, through which we can update the textual content, inserting other assets, uploading content from a document etc. We can see a live update of content with word count, character count etc during content entry.



On selecting and editing the dialog gives 'Create variation' option. Through which we can create different version of content based on our requirement. These variations are used across different channels.



Clicking the 'folder' icon provides us the option to add collection to this content fragment.



On clicking 'metadata' section helps to update the metadata associate with the fragment.



Once all updates are done, save the content fragment to ensure all changes are submitted to crx. The new content fragment created can be found at path '/content/dam'.

YouTube demo videos for Content Fragments:
         AEM 6.3 Content Fragments Basics
         Content Fragments AEM
         View Content fragment output in aem

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