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Guide for working with Templates and Call in Sightly AEM 6.1

Guide for working with Templates and Call in Sightly AEM 6.1

Recently a question came up on how to use create templates and call them in sightly. I will try my best to explain this concept and at the end you will have a some idea on how you can work with it.

Note: Do not get confused with term ‘templates’.  We are not referring to the templates used for creating page, instead we are referring to feature in Sightly

Let’s get started with concept and…

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News Component using Guardian News API in AEM

News Component using Guardian News API in AEM

A simple news component which used Guardian News API and reduce Servlet data calls using browsers local storage features. 

Here’s the overview of component:-

Component displays 4 news for each of the keyword authored. As an input to the component author has to give four keywords for which he wants news to be displayed. These keyword can be any like apple, adobe, facebook, google etc.

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Multifield Touch UI Sightly Component

Multifield Touch UI Sightly Component

From AEm 6.x, both Touch UI and Sightly has become integral part and first approach to build the components. So I have tried my best to demonstrate how to create a Touch UI component using Sightly in this article.

Multifield Touch UI Component

Create node ‘touchmulti’ of type cq: component

Add ‘cq:dialog’ of type nt:unstructured for Touch UI dialog

Add ‘dialog’ of type ‘cq:Dialog’ for classic UI…

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