![Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM
Invalidating mapped content
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prop.replication-action-type="ACTIVATE"
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![Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM
Rewriting links in additional HTML tags
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includeTags="[INPUT,FORM,/FORM,SCRIPT,BODY,/BODY,BASE,
AREA,LINK,A,/A,IMG]"/>
Overlay HTML generator configuration:
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Adobe Source 2016 - Building a Corporate Site Solution Using Multi Site Manager
- 1. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using Multi Site Manager A Technical Case Study Michael Leroy | AEM Technical Lead, Shine Solutions
- 2. Agenda 1. The legacy implementation 2. The revised implementation 3. Issues faced 4. Lessons learned Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM
- 3. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM Configurable micro sites using template As much reuse as possible Speed of microsite implementation Problem to solve
- 4. Micro CMicro A Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM Template 1 Template 2 Micro B /content /company /template-main /template1 /template2 /configuration /main /microA /microB /microC Main Main Template
- 5. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM The partner page rendering process AEM Apache https://corp.company.com/microA http://corp.company.com/microA/content/company.html /content/company/template1.html Page filter
- 6. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM The retail page rendering process AEM Apache https://www.company.com/ http://www.company.com/main/content/company.html /content/company/template-main.html Page filter
- 7. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM Limitations Complex URL rewriting No Touch UI support No multi-tenancy No microsite-specific authoring Content structure not best practice source: openclipart.org
- 8. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM “Multi Site Manager (MSM) enables you to easily manage multiple web sites that share common content.” “MSM lets you define relations between the sites so that content changes in one site are automatically replicated in other sites.” Multi Site Manager
- 9. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM Blueprint (Template 1) Blueprint (Template 2) Main LiveCopies (Micro A, Micro B, …) rollout rollout /content /main /blueprints /template1 /template2 /microsites /microA /microB /microC /etc/map/https /company.com /corp.company.com
- 10. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM Working with links in Blueprint Blueprint (Template 1) LiveCopies (Micro A, Micro B, …) rollout /content/blueprints/template1/en/contact.html /content/microsites/microA/en/contact.html
- 11. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM Link rewriting via Sling Mappings <a href=“/content/microsites/microA/en/contact.html”>Contact Us</a> <a href=“/microA/contact/”>Contact Us</a> Sling Mappings + LinkCheckerTransformer <a href=“https://corp.company.com/microA/contact/”>Contact Us</a>
- 12. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM The partner page rendering process AEM Apache https://corp.company.com/microA https://corp.company.com/microA.html /content/microsites/microA/en.html Page
- 13. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM The retail page rendering process AEM Apache https://www.company.com/ http://www.company.com/en.html /content/main/en.html Page
- 14. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM Additional Changes Moved instance configuration to common project Moved common content to specific location Dispatcher farms Changed configuration management (CryptoSupport, runmode)
- 15. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM Additional Changes Used ACS Static Reference Rewriter Used ACS Dispatcher Flush Rules Used ACS Error Page Handler for error pages
- 16. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM Advantages Using actual resources No complex URL rewriting Multi-tenancy friendly Microsite-specific authoring Upgrade path to AEM 6.X source: openclipart.org
- 17. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM Issues and gotchas
- 18. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM LiveCopy creation Create LiveCopy - generic approach - copy matches source exactly Create Site - specialised multilingual approach - first two levels are shallow (enforced by cq:isDeep)
- 19. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM Invalidating mapped content AEM Apache https://corp.company.com/microA https://corp.company.com/microA.html /content/microsites/microA/en.html /corp/microA.html /corp/microA.html
- 20. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM Invalidating mapped content <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <jcr:root jcr:primaryType="sling:OsgiConfig" prop.replication-action-type="ACTIVATE" prop.rules.hierarchical=“[ /content/microsites/([^/]+)/.*=/corp/$1&/corp/content/microsites/$1]” prop.rules.resource-only="[]"/> com.adobe.acs.commons.replication.dispatcher.impl.DispatcherFlushRulesImpl-corporate.xml
- 21. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM Rewriting links in additional HTML tags Supported tags are A, IMG, AREA, FORM, BASE, LINK, SCRIPT, BODY source: https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/dispatcher/disp-domains.html <input type=“hidden” name=“redirectUrl” value=“/some/link.html”/>
- 22. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM Rewriting links in additional HTML tags <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <jcr:root jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured" includeTags="[INPUT,FORM,/FORM,SCRIPT,BODY,/BODY,BASE, AREA,LINK,A,/A,IMG]"/> Overlay HTML generator configuration: linkcheckertransformer.rewriteElements="[a:href,area:href,form:action,input:value]" Configure tag in LinkCheckerTransformer:
- 23. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM Link rewriting gotchas - Must have valid HTML markup or parsing will not function properly - Use vanity x-cq-linkchecker=‘valid’ to force a link to be rewritten - If serving site via SSL, have it all the way through to AEM
- 24. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM Lessons learned Direct links to actual resources within the JCR Blueprints & LiveCopies are awesome ACS Commons rocks Leverage product features
- 25. Building a Corporate Site Solution Using MSM Email: michael.leroy@shinesolutions.com Twitter: @mickler0y Thank you