Adding an AEM Integration to a Template for Asset Data

In order to sync asset metadata from AEM Assets, you will select 'Assets' as the data type when setting up an inbound Experience Manager integration. To learn more about AEM Assets, see their documentation.

Create a Template

1. Open an existing template or follow the steps to create a new template, creating the necessary Patterns, Pick Lists, and Field Sets (including any custom field mappings) to match your AEM fields. 
   
   
2. Click Step 3 - Connect.
   
   
3. Click  to add a new Inbound integration.
   
   
   
4. Click Adobe Experience Manager Inbound Integration.
   
        
   The AEM Inbound configuration section displays.
   
   
   
5. Input the Integration Name.
   
   
6. Select the connected Adobe Experience Manager Account.
   
   
7. Click the modal for the Assets Data Selection type.
   
   
8. Select the frequency sync period in the Schedule Sync. All Experience Manager inbound integrations sync data every 8 hours, beginning from the time the template is initially saved. This is not currently configurable, but may be in the future.
   
   ℹ️  Experience Manager syncs are incremental after the initial sync of data, meaning each subsequent sync will only pull in changes made in AEM since the last sync. The integration uses the jcr:lastModified property to detect recent changes.
   
   

Integration Filters

1. In the Integration Filter section, apply the appropriate File Format, Folder, and Tag filters:
   

   Name	Description	Notes
   Folder	Searchable list of all folders to limit data. Using this filter will sync all contents of this folder and the contents of its sub-folders. Claravine support syncing of image, document, video, and audio files. Specifically, you can limit the data synced to specific file formats.
   Tag	Searchable list of all tags ID to limit data.	Filter applied to cq:tags

   File FormatSearchable list of file types to limit synced data on.Filter applied to dc:format The following file formats are available to filter on:

   Image	Document	Video	Audio
   GIF	PDF	MP4	MP3
   JPEG	DOC	MPEG	WAV
   BMP	DOCX
   PNG	PPT
   SVG	PPTX
   TIFF	XLS
   	XLSX
   	HTML

   To learn more about supported file types in Experience Manager, please visit Adobe’s documentation.

   💡 Helpful tips:

   • Sync content fragments by filtering to assets in HTML file formats.
   • Multiple filters applied will behave as an ‘AND’ filter. For example, if you apply a filter on file format and folder, metadata synced from AEM will be limited to data that of the specified file format AND located in the specified folder.
   
   

   Field Mapping

   In Experience Manager, an object is uniquely identified using its path which Claravine relies upon in its integration as its key to detect changes. As such, path is a required field mapping when adding an AEM integration to a template.

2. In the Field Mapping section, use the Map from AEM drop-down list to select the standard and custom inbound AEM field, and select the corresponding Map to Claravine drop-down list of fields in the template. 
   
   
   Claravine’s Experience Manager integration allows mapping to many of its standard properties. Depending upon what type of data you choose to sync to a template, the list of properties will change to be relevant to the data you select to sync (e.g. Assets vs. Page).

   Mappable Properties

   Property	Display Name
   path	path
   dc:date	dc:date
   dc:description	dc:description
   dc:format	dc:format
   dc:identifier	dc:identifier
   dc:language	dc:language
   dc:publisher	dc:publisher
   dc:relation	dc:relation
   dc:rights	dc:rights
   dc:source	dc:source
   dc:subject	dc:subject
   dc:title	dc:title
   dc:type	dc:type
   cq:tags	cq:tags
   jcr:uuid	jcr:uuid
   jcr:created	jcr:created
   jcr:createdBy	jcr:createdBy
   jcr:lastModifiedBy	jcr:lastModifiedBy
   jcr:lastModified	jcr:lastModified
   jcr:createdBy	jcr:createdBy
   jcr:created	jcr:created
   cq:parentPath	cq:parentPath
   jcr:primaryType	jcr:primaryType
   cq:name	cq:name
   dam:assetID	dam:assetID
   dam:assetState	dam:assetState
   dam:fileFormat	dam:fileFormat
   dam:relativePath	dam:relativePath

   To learn more about properties in Experience Manager, see their documentation.
   
3. Click + Add New Mapping to add additional AEM to Claravine mapping. 
   
   
4. Click Save to save the template.

• You can use custom field mappings to sync data in custom properties in Experience Manager. It’s common for companies to customize their AEM environment through custom properties. In order to map data from custom properties, you simply add a custom field mapping to the AEM connect account. 

Watch a video showing you how to add an AEM Inbound Integration to an AEM Assets template.