We.Retail Reference Implementation we-retail-reference-implementation
Introduction introduction
We.Retail is a reference implementation and sample content that illustrates the recommended way of setting up an online presence with Adobe Experience Manager.
We.Retail makes use of the latest AEM technologies such as HTL, responsive layouts, editable templates, core components, and much more.
While it illustrates a retail vertical, the way the site is setup can be applied to any vertical, and only the product catalog and cart features are retail-specific.
Features features
As AEM’s standard reference implementation, We.Retail showcases some of the most powerful features of AEM.
Getting Started getting-started
We.Retail is delivered as AEM’s sample content. In order to use, simply start AEM as you normally would, making sure that sample content is not disabled.
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runmode.Latest Version latest-version
Although We.Retail is distributed with the AEM release, updates to the content and its features may be made after the release. Therefore it is possible to download the latest release from GitHub and then upload and install it as a package on your AEM instance.
First Steps first-steps
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Once AEM is started (and/or We.Retail is installed), the site We.Retail is available in the sites console.
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For example the following page can be opened and it should look as displayed in the appendix below:
https://<server name>:<port number>/editor.html/content/we-retail/language-masters/en.html
We.Retail & Geometrixx we-retail-geometrixx
Geometrixx and its many incarnations served as sample content in earlier versions of AEM. Since version 6.3, We.Retail has been the sample content delivered with AEM and serves as the new standard reference implementation.
We.Retail is technically more robust and exploits the latest AEM technology to be more flexible and scalable, while also demonstrating the newest features of the product.
Feature Comparison feature-comparison
The following table gives an overview of major features that are available in We.Retail as compared to Geometrixx.
- Available means that examples of the feature are found in the sample content.
- Not available means that examples of the feature are not available in the sample content, but does not mean that the feature itself is not.
Contribute contribute
We.Retail has been released as an open-source project and the latest version of the source code can be downloaded from GitHub.
CODE ON GITHUB
You can find the code of this page on GitHub
- Open aem-sample-we-retail project on GitHub
- Download the project as a ZIP file
The latest release can also be downloaded directly as an installable package.
If you encounter problems, please file GitHub issues.
Feel free to fork or to contribute with pull requests.
Preview preview
Preview of the We.Retail welcome page: