Initial Setup for Enablement initial-setup-for-enablement

Start Author and Publish Instances start-author-and-publish-instances

For development and demonstration purposes, it will be necessry to run one author and one publish instance.

Follow the basic AEM Getting Started instructions which will result in

For AEM Communities,

Install Latest Communities Release install-latest-communities-release

This tutorial creates an enablement community site. To ensure the latest feature pack is installed, visit:

For a tutorial that creates an engagement community site, visit Getting Started with AEM Communities.

Configure Enablement Features configure-enablement-features

To follow this tutorial, it is necessary to correctly install and configure enablement, which requires third-party products, such as MySQL and FFmpeg.

Configure Analytics configure-analytics

When Adobe Analytics is configured for the community site, more information is available in the reports generated on enablement resources and learning paths assigned to community members (learners).

Configure Email for Notifications configure-email-for-notifications

The notifications feature, available by default for all sites created using the Communities Sites console, provides an email channel for notifications.

What is necessary is for email to be properly configured for the site.

See Configuring Email.

Enable the Tunnel Service enable-the-tunnel-service

When creating a community site in the author environment, the tunnel service makes possible the ability to create and manage users and user groups registered in the publish environment (members), assign roles to trusted community members, and assign content to learners.

For more information see Managing Users and User Groups.

For simple instructions to enable the tunnel service, see Tunnel Service.

Create Tutorial Tags create-tutorial-tags

Create tags to use for the engage and enablement tutorials, using the tag namespace of Tutorial.

Use the Tagging console to create the following tags:

Then follow the instructions to

Sample package of tags created for the AEM Communities Getting Started Tutorials

Get File

Create Enablement Members and Groups create-enablement-members-and-groups

For an enablement community site, site visitors should not be able to self-register nor use social login.

Instead, with the tunnel service enabled, the Members console is used to register new members in the publish environment.

In this tutorial, three members are created in the publish environment. Two members will be become members of a user group that is assigned to a learning path, while the third member will become an enablement resource contact.

A fourth user is created in the author environment and assigned the roles of Communities Administrator and Community Enablement Manager.

Riley Taylor - Enrollee riley-taylor-enrollee

Create a member who will be added to a group of Learners - the Community Ski Class group.

Sidney Croft - Enrollee sidney-croft-enrollee

Create a second member who will be added to the Community Ski Class group.

Quinn Harper - Enablement Resource Contact and Moderator quinn-harper-enablement-resource-contact-and-moderator

Create a member who will be added to the Community Site’s member group once the site has been created. This membership will allow the member to be assigned as the enablement Resource Contact when an enablement resource is created for the site.

Add a User Group - Community Ski Class add-a-user-group-community-ski-class

Add a new group named Community Ski Class.

Community Ski Class properties community-ski-class-properties

Community Administrator Role community-administrator-role

Members of the Community Administrators group are able to create community sites, manage sites, manage members (they can ban members from the community), and moderate content.

Create User create-user

Create a user on author, who is assigned the role of Community Administrator:

Assign Sirius to Community Administrators Group assign-sirius-to-community-administrators-group

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