Use ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock assets in ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Experience Manager Assets use-adobe-stock-assets-in-aem-assets
Organizations can integrate their ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock enterprise plan with Experience Manager Assets to ensure that licensed assets are broadly available for their creative and marketing projects, with the powerful asset management capabilities of Experience Manager.
ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock service provides designers and businesses with access to millions of high-quality, curated, royalty-free photos, vectors, illustrations, videos, templates, and 3D assets for all their creative projects. Experience Manager users are able to quickly find, preview, and license ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock assets that are saved in Experience Manager, without leaving the Experience Manager interface.
Prerequisites prerequisites
The integration requires an and Experience Manager 6.4 with at least Service Pack 2 deployed. For Experience Manager 6.4 service pack details, see these release notes.
Integrate Experience Manager and ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock integrate-aem-and-adobe-stock
To allow communication between Experience Manager and ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock, create an IMS configuration and an ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock configuration in Experience Manager.
Create an IMS configuration create-an-ims-configuration
- In the Experience Manager user interface, navigate to Tools > Security > ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ IMS Configurations. Click Create and select Cloud Solution > ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock.
- Either reuse an existing certificate or select Create new certificate.
- Click Create certificate. Once created, download the public key. Click Next. Leave the ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ IMS Technical Account Configuration screen open to provide the required values shortly.
- Access . Ensure that your account has administrator permissions for the organization for which the integration is required.
- Click Create new project and click Add API. Select ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock from the list of APIs that are available to you. Select OAUTH 2.0 Web.
- Provide Default redirect URI and Redirect URI pattern values. Click Save configured API. Copy the generated ID and secret.
- In ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ IMS Technical Account Configuration screen, provide the values in the boxes titled Title, Authorization Server, API Key, Client Secret, and Payload. For detailed information about these values, see .
Create ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock configuration in Experience Manager create-adobe-stock-configuration-in-aem
- In the Experience Manager user interface, navigate to Tools > Cloud Services > ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock.
- Click Create to create a configuration and associate it with your existing IMS Configuration. Select
PRODas the environment parameter. - In Licensed Assets Path field, leave a location as is. Do not change the location where you want to store the ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock assets.
- Complete creation by adding all the required properties. Click Save & Close.
- Add Experience Manager users or groups, who can license the assets.
Use and manage ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock assets in Experience Manager usemanage
Using this capability, organizations can allow its users to work using ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock assets in Experience Manager Assets. From within the Experience Manager user interface, users can search ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock assets and license the required assets.
Once an ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock asset is licensed in Experience Manager, it can be used and managed like a typical asset. In Experience Manager, the users can search and preview the assets; copy and publish the assets; share the assets on Brand Portal; access and use the assets via Experience Manager desktop app; and so on.
Figure: Search for ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock assets and filter results from your Experience Manager interface.
A. Search assets similar to the assets whose ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock ID is provided. B. Search assets that match your selection of shape or orientation. C. Search for one of more supported asset types D. Open or collapse the filters pane E. License and save the selected asset in Experience Manager F. Save the asset in Experience Manager with watermark G. Explore assets on ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock website that are similar to the selected asset H. View the selected assets on ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock website I. Number of selected assets from the search results J. Switch between Card view and List view
Find assets find-assets
Your Experience Manager users, can search for assets in both, Experience Manager and ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock. When the search location is not limited to ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock, the search results from Experience Manager and ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock are displayed.
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To search for ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock assets, click Navigation > Assets > Search ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock.
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To search for assets across ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock and Experience Manager Assets, click search
Alternatively, start typing Location: ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock in the search bar to select ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock assets. Experience Manager offers advanced filtering capabilities on the searched assets, allowing users to quickly zero-in on the required assets using filters, such as types of supported assets, image orientation, and licensed state.
Figure: Search filters in Experience Manager and highlighted ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock assets in search results.
Save and view the required assets saveassets
Select an asset that you want to save in Experience Manager. Click Save in the toolbar at the top and provide the name and location of the asset. The unlicensed assets are saved locally with a watermark.
Next time when you search for assets, the saved assets are highlighted with a badge, to indicate that such assets are available in Experience Manager Assets.
License assets licenseassets
Users can license ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock assets by using the quota of their ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock enterprise plan. When you license an asset, it is saved without a watermark and is available for searching and using in Experience Manager Assets.
Figure: Dialog to license and save ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock assets in Experience Manager Assets.
Access metadata and asset properties access-metadata-and-asset-properties
Users can access and preview the metadata, including the ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock metadata properties for the assets saved in Experience Manager, and add License References for an asset. However, the updates to license reference are not synced between Experience Manager and ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock website.
Users can see the properties for both, licensed and unlicensed assets.
Figure: View and access metadata and license references of saved assets.
Known limitations known-limitations
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Editorial image warning is not displayed: When licensing an image, users cannot check if an image is Editorial Use Only. To prevent possible misuse, the administrators can turn off the access to editorial assets from the Admin Console.
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Wrong license type is displayed: It is possible that an incorrect license type is displayed in Experience Manager for an asset. Users can log into the ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock website to see the license type.
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Reference fields and metadata are not synced: When a user updates a license reference field, the license reference information is updated in Experience Manager but not on the ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock website. Similarly, if the user updates the reference fields on the ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Stock website, the updates are not synchronized in Experience Manager.