Configuring your account environment

AEM provides you with the capability to configure your account and certain aspects of the author environment.

Using the account settings and user preferences the following options and preferences can be defined (certain preferences are only available from within a specific UI):

• Editing Toolbar (available from the classic UI)
  Select whether you want to have the global editing toolbar. This toolbar (shown at the top of the browser window when you are editing a page with the classic UI) gives you Copy, Cut, Paste, Delete buttons for using with the paragraph components on that page:
  • Show when needed (Default)
  • Always show
  • Keep Hidden
• Impersonate as
  With the Impersonate as functionality a user can work on behalf of another user.
• Language
  The language to use for the UI of the authoring environment. Select the required language from the available list, it will be used for both the touch-optimized and classic UI.
  
• Window Management
  Select either:
  • Multiple Windows (Default)
    Pages will be opened in a new window.
  • Single Window
    Pages will be opened in the current window.
• Show desktop actions for Assets (available from the touch-optimized UI)
  Requires the Assets companion app or Create Cloud desktop app.
  
• Authoring Mode (available from the touch-optimized UI)
  This allows you to set the default UI mode to be used when authoring a page:
  • Touch-Optimized (Default)
  • Classic
• Enable Assets Home Page (available from the touch-optimized UI)
  This option will only be available if your system administrator has enabled Assets Home Page experience for the entire organization. You can then configure your requirements.

The user icon gives you access to various options, depending on the UI you are using:

Each user can set certain properties for themselves. This is available from the following menu in the top right corner of the Websites console: