ACS AEM Commons page compare utility in AEM 6.4

Adobe consulting services provides a set of utilities which extends the capabilities of AEM. This additional features helps the site administrator/content managers to generate various reports. This tools are further extensible for specific needs.

Read about Content Reports Generation in AEM 6.4

List of ACS AEM Commons tools are given below.

• Generic Lists - Helps to create custom lists
• Reports - Helps to create, execute and view reports
• Audit log search - Search for audit log events
• Content Packagers - create query, ACL and authorizable packages
• Automatic package replication - tooling to automatically replicate AEM packages.
• Dispatcher Flush - Manually flush the AEM Dispatcher cache
• Version Replicator - replicate specific version of content
• Version compare - compare AEM page version content and structure
• Redirect Maps - Define redirect Apache https redirect maps
• Page Compare - Compare AEM Page content and structure
• Manage Controlled Processes- Execute and monitor a suite of provided tasks
• JCR Compare: Compare JCR Content trees across AEM instances
• Bulk workflow manager- Execute AEM workflow at scale
• System Notification - Notify AEM users of important AEM Events
• Workflow remover - Power tooling for Workflow instance remover
• Users to CSV Exporter - Export AEM users to CSV for reporting
• QR Code -  Quickly review published pages on mobile devices

In this post we are talking about the page compare tool.

How to Install AEM ACS Commons tool?

Install steps:

• Download ACS AEM Commons package: https://github.com/adobe-consulting-services/acs-aem-commons/releases
• Upload / install package in AEM through package manager
• Validate installation : Go to http://localhost:4502/aem/start.html > Tools > ACS AEM COMMONS > Page Compare

Now access the URL
{localhost}:{port}/etc/acs-commons/page-compare.html

Men Vs Men
 Here both side same page is selected.

 Paths selected:
/content/we-retail/language-masters/en/men
/content/we-retail/language-masters/en/men

Report

Men Vs Women
 Here one side /men page and other side /women page is selected.

 Paths selected:
/content/we-retail/language-masters/en/women
/content/we-retail/language-masters/en/men

Report

A more detailed explanation is provided in the below video.