Current Release Notes for Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service release-notes

Enhanced Visual Rule Editor for Core Component Based Adaptive Forms: This release brings a significant upgrade to the visual rule editor for adaptive forms based on core components. This release brings a significant upgrade to the visual rule editor for adaptive forms based on core components. This update focuses on streamlining interactions with custom functions, empowering you to build more robust and efficient forms.

You can now streamline custom function interactions by:

• Leveraging new annotations to provide clearer function definitions.
• Using caching mechanisms for custom functions, leading to faster form performance.
• Seamlessly working with global objects within custom functions.
• Defining and utilizing optional parameters within custom functions.

This update also brings the following enhancements to rule editor functionality. You can:

• Implement powerful “when-then-else” logic for conditional execution.
• Leverage modern JavaScript features like let and arrow functions (ES10 support).
• Validate or reset not only fields, but also entire panels and forms, expanding control over user interactions.

These advancements provide a more intuitive and powerful experience for crafting rules and custom functions within the visual rule editor.

Create multiple versions of an Adaptive Form: You can now easily manage variations of existing forms. This simplifies version control and facilitates comparison for form optimization, all within a single, streamlined workflow.

Compare Adaptive Form: You can now easily compare two forms to dentify differences between two forms. It facilitates smooth collaboration by enabling team members to compare revisions and discuss changes efficiently.

Accessibility Enhancements for Scribble Signature Component: This update brings significant accessibility improvements to the Scribble Signature component:

Improved Keyboard Navigation:

• Pressing the Tab key allows users to navigate through all interactive elements within the signature dialog box.
• Signing with a brush or keyboard and pressing Enter closes the dialog.
• Focus remains on the signature control after signing and clicking “OK”.

Clear Signature Functionality:

• A clear cross icon for erasing the signature is accessible via the Tab key.
• The “Clear Signature Confirmation” dialog is also accessible through Tab navigation.

Enhanced Labels and Controls:

• The label for the keyboard signature button is now clearer, using “aria-label” to announce functionality (such as “aria-label=‘Sign using Keyboard’”).
• Improved contrast ensures all controls within the scribble signature are easily distinguishable.
• The OK/check mark button now visually indicates when it’s inactive.

Signature Feedback for Screen Readers:

• When a signature is typed, screen reader users can hear the text used to create the signature.

Submit an Adaptive Form to Adobe Workfront Fusion Scenario: Forms as a Cloud Service offers an out-of-the-box option to effortlessly connect an Adaptive Form with Adobe Workfront. This simplifies the process of submitting an Adaptive Form to an Adobe Workfront scenario, allowing you trigger a Workfront Fusion scenario on submission of an Adaptive Form.

Using the Adobe Workfront Fusion Connector, you can design workflows that are triggered automatically upon submission of an Adaptive Form. For instance, envision a scenario where a workflow is initiated to assign a specific individual the task of reviewing submitted data, allowing approval or rejection of an application based on the information captured through the adaptive form. This streamlined integration enhances efficiency and brings a new level of automation to your workflow processes.|

Reader Extension Service: AEM Forms Communication APIs has brought Reader Extension Service to allow you to add functionalities like form filling and commenting to regular PDFs, making them interactive for users with the free Adobe Reader.

Right to left languages support: Adaptive Forms built on Core Components can now be presented in a Right-to-Left (RTL) language like Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. The RTL languages are spoken by over 2 billion people globally. Using a form in RTL language allows you to extend the reach of your adaptive forms to cater to these diverse audiences and select into RTL markets. In certain regions, it’s also a legal mandate to provide forms in the local language. By accommodating local languages, you not only open doors to a broader audience but also ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations.

Protect your documents with DocAssurance APIs (Part of Communication APIs): The DocAssurance APIs empower you to safeguard sensitive information by signing and encrypting the documents. Through encryption, the contents of a document are transformed into an unreadable format, ensuring that only authorized users can gain access. This fortified layer of protection not only shields valuable data from unauthorized eyes but also provides peace of mind. The Signature APIs let your organization protect the security and privacy of Adobe PDF documents that it distributes and receives. This service uses digital signatures and certification to ensure that only intended recipients can alter documents.

You can write to aem-forms-ea@adobe.com from your official email id to join the early adopter program and request access to the capability.

You can leverage the Real User Monitoring (RUM) Data Service to enable client-side collection for AEM as a Cloud Service.
Real User Monitoring (RUM) Data Service offers a more precise reflection of user interactions, ensuring a reliable measure of website engagement. It is a great opportunity to gain advanced insights into your page performance. While this is beneficial for customers who use either Adobe-managed CDN or non-Adobe-managed CDN. Additionally, for customers using a non-Adobe managed CDN, automated traffic reporting can now be enabled for them, thus removing the need to share any traffic report with Adobe.

If you are interested in testing this new feature and sharing your feedback, please send an email to aemcs-rum-adopter@adobe.com, along with your domain name for each of the environments that you would like to enable RUM for from your email address associated with your Adobe ID. Adobe’s product team will then enable the Real User Monitoring (RUM) Data Service for you.