Adobe Experience Manager Connector Prerequisites

Before you begin the AEM connector deployment, make sure an Adobe Experience Manager Administrator can participate in the deployment process to assign the Adobe Experience Manager specific tasks.

User Accounts and Application Permissions

Required Permission	Description
Adobe Experience Manager Account	A crawling account must be created in Adobe Experience Manager. Account must have READ access to the following nodes in the repository: Sub-trees containing the content to crawl. Get permissions (rep:policy subnodes) on all ascendants folders of the content to crawl. To all the following nodes: */home/users* */home/groups* */conf/global/settings/dam/adminui-extension/metadataschema* If crawling account is a member of the Administrators group, it automatically has all the permissions specified above. Adobe Granite Token Authentication Handler: Must be enabled Enabled by default Used by Adobe Experience Manager UI as well.

Required Permission

Description

Adobe Experience Manager Account

A crawling account must be created in Adobe Experience Manager.
- Account must have READ access to the following nodes in the repository:
  - Sub-trees containing the content to crawl.
  - Get permissions (rep:policy subnodes) on all ascendants folders of the content to crawl.
  - To all the following nodes:
    /home/users
    /home/groups
    /conf/global/settings/dam/adminui-extension/metadataschema
- If crawling account is a member of the Administrators group, it automatically has all the permissions specified above.
Adobe Granite Token Authentication Handler:
- Must be enabled
- Enabled by default
- Used by Adobe Experience Manager UI as well.

Network and Connectivity

Port	Requirement
HTTP/https	The Adobe Experience Manager site must be accessible via HTTP/HTTPS from the server where the connector is deployed

Connector Features and Requirements

Features	Supported	Additional Information
Adobe Experience Manager version support	Cloud version On-premise versions Authoring instances and Publishing instances	Connector is compatible with any Adobe Experience Manager versions that support the Query Builder API. Connector can be used in the same way either for authoring or publishing instance.
Searchable content types	Digital Assets and Sites.
Content Update	Full and Incremental	All BA Insight Connectors support both Full and Incremental crawls, unless noted. The incremental crawl Scanning and capturing only new data from all of your content sources. This data did not exist when the last crawl was run. uses latest of 3 following datetime fields to detect the last modified time of the documents: jcr:content/cq:lastModified jcr:content/jcr:lastModified jcr:content/jcr:created
Permission Types	Yes	All BA Insight Connectors support fetch ACLs from the source system Your Source System is the repository where your data is stored (data to be indexed). This repository is managed by applications such as: - SharePoint O365 - SharePoint 2013/16/19 - Documentum - File Share - OpenText - Lotus Notes - etc. Your Source System repository can also be a database such as SQL or Oracle.. To make items *public* or *restricted* to a single user/set of users, use Connector Framework.