Tools Consoles tools-consoles

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The Tools consoles provide access to a number of specialized tools that help you administer your websites, digital assets and other aspects of your content repository. There are currently two flavors of the Tools console dependent on the UI you are using:

Tools - Classic UI tools-classic-ui

Page or Folder
Purpose
MSM Control Center
Centralized point for managing your multiple sites.
Client Context Configurations
The Client Context represents a dynamically assembled collection of user data. The default and marketing cloud configurations are held here.
Cloud Services Configurations
Holds configurations related to Integrating with the Adobe Marketing Cloud.
Commerce
Provides access to importers and various product data.
DAM - Digital Rights Management
Provides access to digital rights information and licences.
DAM - Health Checker
Compares /var/dam and /content/dam and checks for
any inconsistencies. Any files/folders listed can then be synchronized or deleted. Node types for folder comparison are configurable in the web console.
DAM - Adobe Indesign
Scripts for use in conjunction with Adobe Indesign.
DAM - Video Profiles
Configurable profiles for ffmpeg transcodings.
Dashboards
Allows you to create reporting dashboards; these provide a customizable way to define pages that display consolidated data.
Designs
Holds the list of designs defined, including the graphics and css files to be used.
Custom Documentation
Used when extending the documentation and online help.
Form Submissions
Holds the list of form submissions received.
Importers - Bulk Editor
Lets you search for items and edit them in bulk. You can also export and import content (in bulk) into the repository.
Importer - Feed Importer
The feed importer is a framework to repeatedly import content from external sources into your repository. The idea of the feed importer is to poll a remote resource at a specified interval, to parse it, and to create nodes in the content repository that represent the content of the remote resource.
External Linkchecker
Scans all content pages within your AEM instance and checks any external links. A list of valid and invalid links displays.
Mobile
Helps you create websites designed for mobile devices.
MSM
Handles multilingual and multinational content, helping you balance centralized branding with localized content.
Notification
Notification templates.
Packages
An alternative link to the Package Manager that shows the packages that have been loaded for AEM WCM. Similar to the information shown in CRX's Package Manager.
Replication - Replication Agents
Used to replicate data from author to publish when publishing pages, or with reverse replication to return user comments from the publish environment to author.
Importers - Activate Tree
From the Websites tab you can activate the individual pages. When you have entered, or updated, a considerable number of content pages - all of which are resident under the same root page - it can be easier to activate the entire tree in one action. You can also perform a Dry Run to emulate an activation and highlight which pages would be activated.
Reports
AEM provides a range of customized reports, allows you to create customized reports and/or develop your own.
Default Page Scaffolding
With scaffolding you can create a form (a scaffold) with fields that reflect the structure you want for your pages and then use this form to easily create pages based on this structure.
Security - Self-Service Configuration
Lets you configure the emails that users automatically receive when they create an account or reset a password and to confirm a password that has been reset.
Segmentation
Site visitors have different interests and objectives when they come to a site. Understanding these goals and fulfilling the expectations is an important success factor for online marketing. Segmentation helps to achieve this by analyzing and characterizing a visitor's details.
socialconfig
Default SRP configuration. See Storage Configuration console.
taskmanagement
No active functionality related to this entry.
tenants
No active functionality related to this entry.
Versioning - Purge Versions
Allows you to purge page versions as required.
Virtual Repositories
You can set up a Virtual Repository using the workspace mount feature to provide JCR-enabled content applications with simplified access to JCR content infrastructure based on CRX and the JCR Connectors.
watchwords
Deprecated. See Moderating Community Content
Workflow
Workflows control a series of actions on pages or digital assets that support any editorial process.

Tools - Touch-Optimized UI tools-touch-optimized-ui

Section
Option
Purpose
Authoring
Campaigns
Manage your marketing campaigns.
Launches
Manage your marketing launches.
Tasks
Inbox
Manage your Inbox items.
Operations
Users and Groups
Manage your users and groups.
Tag Management
Organize your tags and their namespaces.
Cloud Services
Connect to Adobe Marketing Cloud.
Workflows
Model and manage workflows.
Replication
Create and manager multiple website.
Reports
Create and monitor custom reports.
Testing
Run tests defined for your application.
Granite Operations
CRXDE Lite
Develop applications with a web-based IDE.
Packages
Package and share applications.
Package Share
Download applications from Adobe and the community.
Topology Browser
View the instances topology.
Offloading Browser
Manage offloading.
Backup
Carry out backup tasks.
Web Console
Configure and manage the application platform.
Web Console Configuration Dump
Download the configuration status from the web console.
Users
Manage your users.
Groups
Manage your groups.
External Resources
Documentation
View the Web Experience Management documentation.
Developer Resources
Developer resources and downloads.
NOTE
Some of the above options actually link to the classic UI.
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