Browse content
Everything you need to know browse content on Document Authoring.
Tips
Here are some tips to get the most out of the browse and search views on Document Authoring.
- Organizations and sites have configurations, folders and files do not. If you are in either an organization or site, the breadcrumb will expose a settings icon that allows you to set high performance settings for that area. This is currently limited to user permissions and AEM integrations.
- Selecting one or more items will expand the Action Bar. The action bar will present many common actions for your content. If you feel an action is missing, there is likely an app (bulk ops) that can accept the URLs shared from the Action Bar.
- Search is powerful, precise, and basic. Basic + precise can be both a positive and negative. Searching for "aem" will result in only getting lower case results. Searching for "AEM" will yield different results. There are common search recipes listed below.
Browsing basics
Use the Browse view toggle to navigate your content. If you have browsed content with SharePoint or Google Drive, Document Authoring should feel intuitive.
Clicking on the name of an item will take you to the item within the same browser tab. If you wish to open an item in a new browser tab use Cmd/Ctrl+Click.
Search
Use the Search view toggle to search your content. Clicking on a search result will navigate to that page within the existing browser tab. If you wish to retain your list of search results, use Cmd/Ctrl+Click to open a search result in a new browser tab.
Here are some tips to get the most out of searching your content.
- Depending on your content structure, searching the root of the site can include all languages. This may not be desirable and you may want to scope your search to a series of sub-folders.
- Find & replace does not currently version on replace. Be absolutely sure you are making the desired replacement. If something goes wrong, you will need to restore from aem.page, aem.live or an older version. If you are unsure or want protections, ask an engineer to write a find & replace script.
Search query tips
Here are a few recipes to make searching easier.
- Search by block name w/ all variations -
class="name-of-block - Search by block name with no variations -
class="name-of-block" - Search for link -
href="https://url-of-link" - Search for all fragments -
/fragments/ - Search for image -
src="https://url-of-link"
Overview video
Below you can find a video covering the major areas of the browse view in DA.