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See also Content Fragment Updates and Content Services - Feature Pack Release Notes.
This set of Feature Packs delivers updates to Content Fragments, the JSON Exporter and Core Components.
These enable the definition of structured content for the fragments; together with the updated JSON
exporter, this structured content can then be used to deliver AEM content via
Content Services to channels other than AEM pages.
Note:
Content fragments are then used with authoring pages; see Page Authoring with Content Fragments.
Note:
See Developing Content Fragments for further information on templates.
In the Assets console a range of actions are available for your content fragments, either:
- From the toolbar; after selection of your fragment all appropriate actions are available.
- As quick actions; a subset of actions available for the individual fragment cards.

Select the fragment to reveal the toolbar with applicable actions:
- Create
- Checkout
- Properties
- Allows you to view and/or edit the fragment's metadata.
- Edit
- Allows you to open the fragment for editing content together with its elements, variations, associated content and metadata.
- Manage Tags
- To Collection
- Add the fragment to a collection.
- This can also be done when associating a collection with the fragment.
- Add the fragment to a collection.
- Copy/Paste
- Move
- Publish/Unpublish
- Relate/Unrelate
- Delete
- Download
- Save the fragment as a ZIP file; you can define whether to include Elements, Variations, Metadata. The zip package will:
- Include any text content; eg *.txt
- Include any referenced mixed-media; eg *.png
- Not include associated Asset collections.
- Save the fragment as a ZIP file; you can define whether to include Elements, Variations, Metadata. The zip package will:
Note:
Many of these are standard actions for Assets and/or the Desktop App.
Content Fragments must be published for use in the publish enviroment. They can be published:
- After creation; from the Assets console.
- When you publish a page that uses the fragment; the fragment will be listed in the page references.
Caution:
After a fragment has been published and/or referenced, AEM will display a warning when an author opens the fragment for editing again. This is to warn that changes to the fragment will affect the referenced pages as well.