Populating AEM Component Dialog fields using JSON data returned by Sling Servlets

You can invoke an Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Sling Servlet to populate fields that appear in AEM component dialog. That is, instead of hard-coding values in JavaScript, you can populate a dialog drop-down using a Servlet's return value (for example, JSON data), as shown in the following illustration. 

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Adding to the Create Page Wizard in Touch UI

In this blog post, I will describe how you can add a new property to the Page dialog and make it available in the Create Page wizard and Touch UI Dialog in AEM 6.1. It is common to add new properties to dialogs whenever you need to give authors additional options for configuring components or pages. Whenever you need to add a new property into the Page dialog, it typically will not be required by authors at the time of Page creation. For those rare cases when you need some detail specified about a page upon page creation, you will need to add properties into the Create Page wizard. Below is what the out-of-the-box Create Page wizard looks like.