Developing Communities

AEM Communities simplifies the creation and customizaton of community features such as forums, user groups, blogs, Q&A, calendars, comments, reviews, voting, ratings, and assignments.  These features result in user generated content (UGC) being entered in the publish environment.

The foundation of a community site is the social component framework (SCF).  Creation of a community site begins with the selection of a community site template that is composed of community functions.

For an overview and getting started tutorials, visit :

• AEM Communities Overview
• Getting Started with AEM Communities
• Getting Started with AEM Communities for Enablement

• Community Content Storage : discusses the available SRP choices for a UGC common store
• Recommended Topologies for Communities : discusses topologies based on use case and SRP choice

• Social Component Framework : overview of framework and APIs
• SCF Handlebars Helpers : default helpers and how to write custom helpers
• Client-side Customization : customizing code that runs in browser
• Server-side Customization : customizing code that runs on server
• Storage Resource Provider (SRP) : overview of community content storage
• Coding Guidelines : guidelines, tips & tricks
• Community Components guide : interactive development tool

AEM Communities components, functions and features provide the building blocks for community sites.

• Component, Function and Feature Essentials
• Clientlibs for Communities Components
• Community Functions
• Community Group Templates
• Community Site Templates

• Managing Users and User Groups
• Social Login with Facebook and Twitter

Community groups is the concept of allowing community members to form sub-communities within the community site.  Creation of a community group may occur in the publish or author environment.

• Community Group Essentials
• Groups Function
• Community Group Templates
• Managing Users and User Groups
• Community Groups for Authors

• SRP and UGC Essentials - SRP API utility methods and examples
• Tag Essentials - ability for community members to tag UGC and/or cataloged enablement resources

• Client-side tutorials


• Server-side tutorials


• How-To Instructions

• Troubleshooting
• Known Issues

• Visit Deploying Communities to learn about recommended deployments and dispatcher configuration.

• Visit Administering Communities Sites to learn about creating a Community Site, configuring Community Site Templates, moderating community content, managing members, and configuring messaging.

• Visit Authoring Communities Components to learn how to author with and configure Communities components.