Tools

You are reading the AEM 5.6 version of Tools.
This documentation is also available for the following versions: CQ 5.5 CQ 5.4 CQ 5.3

The Tools console provides access to a number of specialized tools that help you administer your websites, digital assets and other aspects of your content repository. These are available as pages or folders from the Tools console:

Page or Folder	Description
MSM Control Center	Centralized point for managing your multiple sites.
DAM
Health Checker	Compares /var/dam and /content/dam and checks for any inconsistencies. Any files/folders listed can then be synchronized or deleted. Node types for folder comparison are configurable in the web console.
Video Profiles	Configurable profiles for ffmpeg transcodings.
Designs	Holds the list of designs defined, including the graphics and css files to be used.
Form Submissions	Holds the list of form submissions received.
Importers
Bulk Editor	Lets you search for items and edit them in bulk. You can also export and import content (in bulk) into the repository.
Offline Importer	The offline importer enables you to import content from MS Word documents generated offline.
Feed Importer	The feed importer is a framework to repeatedly import content from external sources into your repository. The idea of the feed importer is to poll a remote resource at a specified interval, to parse it, and to create nodes in the content repository that represent the content of the remote resource. In AEM WCM, the feed importer is used for the following:: In the blog to support the autoblogging feature, which automatically creates blog posts from an external RSS or Atom feed. In the calendar for iCalendar subscriptions, which automatically creates calendar events from an external ICS file or subscribes to/from other calendars.
Site Importer	The site importer helps you take an existing website and set up the basis for a prototype, a proof of concept project and a new development new project.
Upgrade from CQ3/CQ4	Lets you specify the URL of a Communiqué 3 or 4 instance from within a new AEM instance. The content and basic functionality will then be upgraded and imported into your new AEM installation. The upgrade of customized functionality cannot be guaranteed and must be analyzed individually.
Background Jobs	AEM enables you to perform a rollout as a background task (see Rollout in Managing Blueprints with the Control Center) that can be performed when the server has less load. The rollout task is split into jobs. Each job can be stopped, suspended and resumed. Background jobs can be scheduled to run only at certain times.
External Linkchecker	Scans all content pages within your AEM instance and checks any external links. A list of valid and invalid links displays.
Mobile	Helps you create websites designed for mobile devices.
MSM	Handles multilingual and multinational content, helping you balance centralized branding with localized content.
Notification	Notification templates.
Packages	An alternative link to the Package Manager that shows the packages that have been loaded for AEM WCM. Similar to the information shown in CRX's Package Manager.
Replication
Replication Agents	Used to replicate data from author to publish when publishing pages, or with reverse replication to return user comments from the publish environment to author.
Activate Tree	From the Websites tab you can activate the individual pages. When you have entered, or updated, a considerable number of content pages - all of which are resident under the same root page - it can be easier to activate the entire tree in one action. You can also perform a Dry Run to emulate an activation and highlight which pages would be activated.
Reports	AEM provides a range of customized reports, allows you to create customized reports and/or develop your own.
Scaffolding	With scaffolding you can create a form (a scaffold) with fields that reflect the structure you want for your pages and then use this form to easily create pages based on this structure.
Security
Self-Service Configuration	Lets you configure the emails that users automatically receive when they create an account or reset a password and to confirm a password that has been reset.
Segmentation	Site visitors have different interests and objectives when they come to a site. Understanding these goals and fulfilling the expectations is an important success factor for online marketing. Segmentation helps to achieve this by analyzing and characterizing a visitor's details.
SiteCatalyst	SiteCatalyst provides marketers with one place to measure, analyze, and optimize integrated data from all online initiatives across multiple marketing channels. You can use Adobe SiteCatalyst to analyze data from AEM websites.
Virtual Repositories	You can set up a Virtual Repository using the workspace mount feature to provide JCR-enabled content applications with simplified access to JCR content infrastructure based on CRX and Day's JCR Connectors.
Workflow	Workflows control a series of actions on pages or digital assets that support any editorial process.

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