Content Management

Adobe provides the following links as additional, supplemental information based on goals, use case needs, and discussions within lab sessions. This information is intended to augment the experience gained from the Customer Experience Lab curriculum.

Edge Delivery Services Overview  — What EDS is, how it works, and how it fits within the AEM as a Cloud Service ecosystem

EDS + AEM Sites  — How Edge Delivery co-exists with AEM Sites on the same domain and when to use each

Architecture  — The three-tier delivery model: content/media/code buses, the experience composition layer, and CDN integration

EDS in Cloud Manager  — How to register, onboard, and manage EDS sites through Cloud Manager, including CDN setup and support ticketing

FAQ  — Answers on access control, indexing, analytics integrations, Target, Forms licensing, and SEO behavior

Document-Based Authoring Overview  — Creating pages from Word or Google Docs, including the preview/publish flow and Sidekick usage

WYSIWYG Authoring with Universal Editor  — Block-and-section authoring using the Universal Editor as the visual interface for EDS projects

AEM Sidekick  — Browser extension for previewing and publishing content directly from SharePoint, Google Drive, or AEM

Metadata & SEO  — Using the metadata block and bulk metadata sheet to manage page titles, descriptions, social previews, and noindex directives

Getting Started: Developer Tutorial  — Cloning the boilerplate, setting up local dev, and making your first commit to a live EDS site

Block Development  — How blocks are structured in HTML, decorated with CSS, and enhanced with vanilla JavaScript

Block Collection  — Adobe's library of pre-built, extensible blocks equivalent to Core Components for EDS projects

Page HTML Structure  — How sections, blocks, and default content map to the DOM hierarchy EDS delivers to the browser

Section Metadata  — Configuring section-level behavior and styling through metadata rows in document tables

Indexing  — How EDS indexes page content into spreadsheet-backed JSON endpoints and how to configure custom index definitions

Redirects  — Managing URL redirects via the redirects spreadsheet in the content source

Sitemap & robots.txt  — Auto-generated sitemaps and how to configure crawl rules for EDS sites

Image Optimization  — How EDS automatically resizes and optimizes images at delivery without manual intervention

Built-in Experimentation Framework  — Creating and running A/B tests natively within EDS without performance impact or external tooling

Adobe Target Integration  — Connecting EDS to Target for server-side personalization alongside the native experimentation framework

EDS Forms Overview  — Document-based and WYSIWYG authoring options for forms, and when to use each

Adaptive Forms Block  — Adding the Adaptive Forms Block to an EDS project and building forms via spreadsheet field definitions

Configuring Spreadsheets to Accept Submissions  — Setting up incoming sheets, field headers, and Slack notifications for form data capture

Core Web Vitals for EDS  — How EDS achieves perfect Lighthouse scores and what authoring or block patterns can affect them

Operational Telemetry (RUM)  — Real user monitoring built into every EDS site for tracking performance and content engagement