India’s AEM community is growing fast — and it’s time we had a space to share how we actually get things done. Join us for the kickoff session of the AEM India User Group — a fast-paced, hands-on hour focused on working smarter with AEM, packed with practical ideas, underrated tools, and sharp insights you’ll want to take back to your team. Whether you're deep in component dev, leading delivery, building for authors, or decoding briefs from marketers — this session brings together people like you, across roles, to surface what actually helps in day-to-day AEM life. Some things are small wins. Others save you in front of clients, during late-night releases, or when someone asks a question you should have known the answer to. Either way — it’s time we stop learning the hard way.

1. INDIA CHAPTER

2. Speakers
Arko Mukherjee
Lead Developer @ OneTrust
AEMUG – India Chapter
Divanshu Goyal
Consultant @ TechX
AEMUG – India Chapter

3. Upcoming AEM User Group
Meetings
• Thursday, July 24 @ 10am ET: AEM Assets - DAM
Global User Group / Kick off Meeting
o Hosted by: AEM Assets – DAM Global User
Group Chapter
• Thursday, August 14 @ 12pm ET: Establishing and
Maintaining Metadata in AEM Assets for GenAI
Readiness
o Hosted by: AEM – Women In Tech Chapter
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9. Stay connected with our AEMUG - India Chapter!
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10. Working Smart with AEM:
Things You Wish You Knew
Earlier
A fast-paced hour on working smarter with AEM —
packed with sharp insights, underrated tools, and
practical ideas you’ll want to take back to your
team.

11. Agenda
Contents
• Early access to speaker registration.
• AEM quick tools you didn’t know
• Writing and testing code faster with AEM Fiddle scripts
• Let’s learn about shared component approach

12. Want to Speak at the Next
AEMUG India Event?
We’re looking for passionate AEM professionals, tinkerers, and
storytellers to join us as speakers for our upcoming sessions!
Whether you have a tip, a tool, or a tale from the trenches—this is
your chance to share it with the community.
Please fill out the speaker registration form to express your interest
post the meeting.
Let’s learn, grow, and build together!

13. AEM Quick Links – Chrome Extension
Streamline Navigation Across AEM
• Built by SourcedCode (Brian Ka Sing Li)
• Being used by 2,000+ AEM professionals already
• Saves time with one-click navigation to key AEM interfaces:
Touch UI, Classic UI, CRXDE, Page Properties, DAM, Sites,
and more
• Available free on Chrome Web Store

14. Why It Matters
• Removes repetitive URL copying and editing
• Saves valuable time for authors, developers, and admins
• Helps reduce errors when switching contexts

15. Key Features & Smart Navigation
Key Features & Smart Navigation:-
Dynamic Quick Links (Hotkeys):
• e – Touch UI Editor
• w – Classic UI
• c – CRXDE Lite
• p – Page Properties
• d – Disabled Mode
• s, a – Folder navigation for Sites/DAM
Bookmark Quick Links (Shift + Hotkeys):
• Shift + S – Sites
• Shift + A – DAM
• Shift + X – Experience Fragments
• Shift + C – CRXDE
• Supports direct jumps to Package Manager, OSGi Console, ConfigMgr, etc.
Other Enhancements:
Open in New Tab checkbox
Hide UI Hints for cleaner view

16. Installation & Setup
• Go to the Chrome Web Store➜ Install Extension
• Click the extension icon while on any AEM page (e.g., /content/...)
• Explore the quick tools and hotkeys
• Customize hints, tabs, or environment switching if needed

17. Fiddle script by ACS COMMONS

18. AEM Sidekick – Chrome Extension
Empowering In-Context Authoring & Publishing in AEM/EDS:-
• Developed and maintained by Adobe, Inc
• Enables previewing, editing, and publishing of content
directly from your live or preview site context

19. Why It Matters
• Streamlines authoring workflow by enabling edit → preview →
publish without leaving the live page
• Simplifies environment switching—navigate easily between preview,
live, and production environments
• Reduces friction for non-technical authors by offering quick shift to
doc based authoring console

20. Core Features &
Authoring Navigation
A floating toolbar appears on AEM pages once installed—toggle via the Adobe icon if
hidden
Three Modes:
• Source Mode – regenerate preview from a document source (e.g., Google Docs/Sheets)
• Preview Mode – view latest rendered content; actions: Edit, Update, Publish
• Live Mode – see what's published; allows editing and publishing if available
Environment Switcher:
Jump between .aem.page → .aem.live → production domains; custom domains supported
by adding your project config
Bulk Actions in Drive or SharePoint:
• Select multiple files to preview or publish in one go
• Copy or open multiple generated URLs effortlessly
• Status feedback with color indicators (green = success, red = failure)
Unpublish & Delete:
Accessible via ellipsis menu; requires sign-in and relevant roles; deletion is irreversible—
users must type “DELETE” to confirm.

21. Installation & Initial Setup
• Visit the Chrome Web Store and install AEM Sidekick
by Adobe
• Pin the extension icon to your toolbar for easy access
• Navigate to any AEM page (preview, .live, or production
domain)
• Click the extension icon to activate Sidekick toolbar
• If necessary, sign in to your authoring environment to
enable delete/unpublish actions
• Add custom domains or projects via the Sidekick menu if
auto-detect does not trigger

22. Shared Component
Properties in AEM
Centralizing Dialog Data for Consistency & Reuse
What it is:
• An ACS AEM Commons feature to share dialog properties across
components
• Supports both shared (component-specific) and global (agnostic)
properties
• Reduces authoring time and enforces consistency across a page

23. Why & When to Use It
Why?
• Avoid repeated content entry across multiple components
• Centralized authoring of common values like CTA labels, tracking
codes, styling, or toggles
• Reduces human error and maintenance effort
When?
• Landing pages with repeated CTAs
• Layout/styling toggles used across components
• Multilingual or multi-market content needing synchronized config
• When authors request “set once, apply everywhere”

24. Enable the OSGi Service
Step1- Activate the Shared Component Properties feature at
runtime, deploy a blank OSGi config file or use Felix console
/apps/mysite/config/com.adobe.acs.commons.wcm.properties.shared.impl.SharedComponentPropertiesImpl.xml
<jcr:root
xmlns:sling="http://sling.apache.org/jcr/sling/1.0"
xmlns:jcr="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/1.0"
jcr:primaryType="sling:OsgiConfig"/>

25. Add Client Libraries for Authoring
Step 2 –Enables author dialogs for configuring shared/global props:
• Create Touch UI and/or Classic UI clientlib folders
• Embed ACS-provided clientlibs and include a blank js.txt
<jcr:root jcr:primaryType="cq:ClientLibraryFolder"
categories="cq.authoring.editor”
embed="[acs-commons.shared-component-properties]"/>

26. Specify Site Root Page via OSGi Config
Step 3- Shared/global properties are stored under the page root
• Deploy a config specifying the root path using regex
/apps/mysite/config/com.adobe.acs.commons.wcm.impl.PageRootProviderConfig-example.xml
<jcr:root jcr:primaryType="sling:OsgiConfig"
page.root.path="[/content/geometrixx/[a-z]{2}]"/>

27. Add Page Info Provider to Page Component
Step 4- Allows the page to expose shared/global data to components
Follow the steps:-
1. Copy
/libs/wcm/foundation/components/basicpage/v1/basicpage/cq:infoProvi
ders
2. Paste into your page component (e.g.
/apps/mysite/components/page/cq:infoProviders)
3. Add node:
Name: sharedComponentProps
Type: nt:unstructured
Property: className =
com.adobe.acs.commons.wcm.properties.shared.impl.SharedComponentPropertiesPageInfoProvider
4. Restart AEM

28. Using Shared & Global Dialogs
in Components
For Shared Properties:-
• Add a dialogshared node in your component like you add cq:dialog
• Authors click the "Configure Shared Properties" (layers icon)
For Global Properties:-
• Add dialogglobal node in your component like you add cq:dialog
• Authors click "Configure Global Properties" (globe icon)

29. Learn More & Official
Documentation
For complete implementation details, examples, and updates:
🔗 Visit: Shared Component Properties
📄 Maintained by Adobe Consulting Services
🧩 Part of the ACS AEM Commons open-source project

30. Q&A Time
Got questions? Let’s hear them!
How to Ask
• Unmute and speak up
• Drop your questions in the chat
Let’s make this an open, helpful conversation.

31. Thank You for Joining Us!
We hope you enjoyed the session and took away something valuable.
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