Connect Adobe Experience Manager

The Silktide package for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) connects AEM to Silktide. It supports AEM 6.4 and AEM 6.5 (Service Pack 2 or later). See CMS connections for what a connection does.

The AEM connection is included on some plans. If Silktide says it is not included in yours, talk to your account manager.

1. Get your key and API address

1. In Silktide, open Settings, then Integrations, and choose CMS.
2. Choose Adobe Experience Manager, pick what the connection applies to, and choose Connect.
3. Copy the Key and the API address. AEM needs both.

2. Install the Silktide package

Choose Contact support in Silktide to get the Silktide package for your AEM version. Then:

1. Sign in to your AEM author instance with an account that may upload and install packages.
2. Open Tools (the hammer icon), then Deployment, then Packages.
3. Choose Upload Package, select the Silktide package, and choose OK.
4. Choose Install, then Install again to confirm.
5. Check the log says the installation succeeded.

3. Add the key and API address

1. Sign in to the AEM author instance as an administrator.
2. On the Start page, choose the Silktide icon.
3. Enter the API address and the key from Silktide.
4. Choose Save.

Silktide is now enabled for every page. You can turn it off for some pages, below.

4. Open pages in AEM, and retest when you publish

AEM's editor addresses are different from the public addresses of the same pages, so Silktide needs to know how one maps to the other before it can open a page in AEM or retest a page when you publish it. Send us, through Contact support, the editor address of one page and its public address. For example, this editor address:

https://author.example.com/editor.html/content/we-retail.html

might map to this public address:

https://www.example.com/content/we-retail.html

We set up the mapping for your connection. Then retest the website. When the test finishes, open a page in the Inspector and choose Open in CMS.

Turn Silktide off for some pages

Silktide is enabled for every page by default. Hover over the Silktide icon while editing a page to see whether it is enabled there.

To turn it off for a page and the pages below it:

1. On the AEM author instance, open Sites and select the page.
2. Choose Properties, then the Silktide Integration tab.
3. Choose Disable, and leave Override Parent Page Configuration unticked.
4. Save.

To turn it back on for a page whose parent has it off, do the same, but choose Enable and tick Override Parent Page Configuration.

Who can change these settings

The package adds a silktide-admin group to AEM. Its members can set the key and choose which pages Silktide applies to. AEM administrators already can. To let someone else, open Tools, then Security, then Groups, find silktide-admin, and add them.