Trying out Core Components in We.Retail

Start AEM with the We.Retail sample content and open the Components Console.

Global Navigation -> Tools -> Components

Opening the rail in the Components Console, you can filter for a particular component group. The core components can be found in

• .core-wcm: The standard core components
• .core-wcm-form: The form submission core components

Choose .core-wcm.

Note that all core components are named v1, reflecting that this is the first version of this core component. Regular versions will be released going forward, which will be version-compatible with AEM and allowing easy upgrading so you can take advantage of the latest features.

Click Text (v1).

See that the Resource Type of the component is /apps/core/wcm/components/text/v1/text. Core components are found under /apps/core/wcm/components and are versioned per component.

Click on the Documentation tab to see the developer documentation for the component.

Return to the Component Console. Filter for the group We.Retail and select the Text component.

See that the Resource Type points to a component as expected under /apps/weretail but the Resource Super Type points back to the core component /apps/core/wcm/components/text/v1/text.

Click the Live Usage tab to see on which pages this component is currently being used. Click the first Thank You page to edit the page.

On the Thank You page, select the text component and in the edit menu of the component click the Cancel Inheritance icon.

We.Retail has a globalized site structure where content is pushed from language masters to live copies through a mechanism called inheritance. For this reason, inheritance must be cancelled in order to allow a user to manually edit text.

Confirm the cancellation by clicking Yes.

Once the inheritance is cancelled and you select the text components, many more options are available. Click on Edit.

You can now see what edit options are available to the text component.

From the Page Information menu select Edit Template.

In the Template Editor of the page, click on the Policy icon of the Text component in the Layout Container of the page.

The core components allow a template author to configure which Properties are available to the page authors. These include features such as allowed paste sources, formatting options, available paragraph styles, etc.

Such design dialogs are available for many core components and work hand-in-hand with the template editor. Once enabled, they are available to the author through the component editors.