Details View

The Details View in the AEM Assets View shows detailed information about the selected asset.

Extensions should use aem/assets/details/1 extension point to utilize extensibility services of the Details View.

Custom side panels

The extensibility feature allows adding new panels and corresponding icon buttons to the side rail using the detailsSidePanel namespace. The custom icons appear under the list of the standard panel icons.

side panel

The host application fully manages UI interaction, including toggling the panel when user clicks the button, deep linking panel in the URL and auto-hiding the panel when an asset changes.

The host is also responsible for rendering panel's header.

The extension only declares the icon type, panel title and the URL for the custom panel content.

API Reference

This API reference section is future broken down into two parts: the API provided by the AEM Assets View host application to the extension and the API provided by the extension to the AEM Assets View host application.

Host API Reference

In addition to the Common API provided by AEM Assets View to all extensions, the host application provides the following API specific to the aem/assets/details/1 extension point and the detailSidePanel namespace.

details.getCurrentResourceInfo()

Description: returns the path and id of the asset shown in the Details View.

Return Object Structure

path (string): Current asset path.
id (string): Current asset id.

Example:

const { path, id } = await guestConnection.host.details.getCurrentResourceInfo();
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const { path, id } = await guestConnection.host.details.getCurrentResourceInfo();

Extension API Reference

The extension definition object passed by the extension to the register() function defines the detailSidePanel namespace and the getPanels() method within that namespace.

The getPanels() method returns an array of custom panel descriptors that the extension wants to add to the side rail of the Details View. Each panel descriptor should include the following properties:

id (string): Panel id, unique within given extension.
tooltip (string): Icon tooltip.
title (string): Custom panel title.
icon (string): Name of the React-Spectrum workflow icon.
contentUrl (string): Relative path to the panel's content.
reloadOnThemeChange (boolean): Whether to reload custom panel when application theme changes.

Example of adding custom side panels

These code snippets demonstrate how to create a custom side panel using UIX SDK library and add it to the side rail of the Details View. (The examples below serve illustrative purposes thus omit certain import statements and other non-important parts.)

Here, the main application code defines three routes:

the first two are the default routes which trigger the ExtensionRegistration component responsible for initial extension registration within the AEM Assets View application.
the extension-template route which invokes the PanelExtensionTemplate component responsible for rendering the custom panel content. This route gets called by the AEM Assets View application when the user clicks the custom panel icon. During the registration the extension will specify /#extension-template as content location.

function App() {
    return (
        <Router>
            <ErrorBoundary onError={onError} FallbackComponent={fallbackComponent}>
                <Routes>
                    <Route index element={<ExtensionRegistration />} />
                    <Route exact path="index.html" element={<ExtensionRegistration />} />
                    <Route path="extension-template" element={<PanelExtensionTemplate />} />
                    // YOUR CUSTOM ROUTES SHOULD BE HERE
                </Routes>
            </ErrorBoundary>
        </Router>
    );

    function onError(e, componentStack) {}

    function fallbackComponent({ componentStack, error }) {
        return (
            <React.Fragment>
                <h1 style={{ textAlign: "center", marginTop: "20px" }}>
                    Extension rendering error
                </h1>
                <pre>{componentStack + '\n' + error.message}</pre>
            </React.Fragment>
        );
    }
}

export default App;
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function App() {
    return (
        <Router>
            <ErrorBoundary onError={onError} FallbackComponent={fallbackComponent}>
                <Routes>
                    <Route index element={<ExtensionRegistration />} />
                    <Route exact path="index.html" element={<ExtensionRegistration />} />
                    <Route path="extension-template" element={<PanelExtensionTemplate />} />
                    // YOUR CUSTOM ROUTES SHOULD BE HERE
                </Routes>
            </ErrorBoundary>
        </Router>
    );

    function onError(e, componentStack) {}

    function fallbackComponent({ componentStack, error }) {
        return (
            <React.Fragment>
                <h1 style={{ textAlign: "center", marginTop: "20px" }}>
                    Extension rendering error
                </h1>
                <pre>{componentStack + '\n' + error.message}</pre>
            </React.Fragment>
        );
    }
}

export default App;

The ExtensionRegistration component initializes the extension registration process by calling the register() function provided by the @adobe/uix-guest library.

The objects passed to the register() function describe the extension and its capabilities. In particular, it declares that the extension uses the detailSidePanel namespace and declares getPanels method which returns an array of custom panels. The custom panel, among other properties, specifies the icon's tooltip, the custom panel title and the route to the panel content.

function ExtensionRegistration() {
    const init = async () => {
        const guestConnection = await register({
            id: extensionId,
            methods: {
                detailSidePanel: {
                    getPanels() {
                        return [
                            {
                                'id': 'extension-template',
                                'tooltip': 'Extension Template',
                                'icon': 'Extension',
                                'title': 'Extension Template',
                                'contentUrl': '/#extension-template',
                                'reloadOnThemeChange': 'true',
                            },
                        ];
                    },
                },
            },
        });
    };
    init().catch(console.error);

    return <Text>IFrame for integration with Host (AEM Assets View)...</Text>;
}

export default ExtensionRegistration;
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function ExtensionRegistration() {
    const init = async () => {
        const guestConnection = await register({
            id: extensionId,
            methods: {
                detailSidePanel: {
                    getPanels() {
                        return [
                            {
                                'id': 'extension-template',
                                'tooltip': 'Extension Template',
                                'icon': 'Extension',
                                'title': 'Extension Template',
                                'contentUrl': '/#extension-template',
                                'reloadOnThemeChange': 'true',
                            },
                        ];
                    },
                },
            },
        });
    };
    init().catch(console.error);

    return <Text>IFrame for integration with Host (AEM Assets View)...</Text>;
}

export default ExtensionRegistration;

The PanelExtensionTemplate component is responsible for rendering the custom panel content. It uses the attach() function provided by the @adobe/uix-guest library to establish a connection with the AEM Assets View and uses this connection object to render a toast message within the AEM Assets View when the user clicks the "Click me!" button.

export default function PanelExtensionTemplate() {
    // Fields
    const [guestConnection, setGuestConnection] = useState();
    const [colorScheme, setColorScheme] = useState('light');

    useEffect(() => {
        (async () => {
            const guestConnection = await attach({ id: extensionId });
            setGuestConnection(guestConnection);

            const { colorScheme } = await guestConnection.host.theme.getThemeInfo();
            setColorScheme(colorScheme);
        })()
    }, []);

    function displayToast(variant, message) {
        guestConnection.host.toast.display({ variant, message });
    }

    return (
        <Provider theme={defaultTheme} colorScheme={colorScheme} height={'100vh'}>
            <View backgroundColor="gray-50">
                <View padding="size-300">
                    <Text>Please visit <Link href="https://developer.adobe.com/uix/docs/">UI Extensibility documentation</Link> to get started.</Text>

                    <Flex justifyContent="center" marginTop="size-400">
                        <ButtonGroup>
                            <Button variant="primary" onPress={() => displayToast('neutral', 'Message from the Extension')}>Click me!</Button>
                        </ButtonGroup>
                    </Flex>
                </View>
            </View>
        </Provider>
    );
}
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export default function PanelExtensionTemplate() {
    // Fields
    const [guestConnection, setGuestConnection] = useState();
    const [colorScheme, setColorScheme] = useState('light');

    useEffect(() => {
        (async () => {
            const guestConnection = await attach({ id: extensionId });
            setGuestConnection(guestConnection);

            const { colorScheme } = await guestConnection.host.theme.getThemeInfo();
            setColorScheme(colorScheme);
        })()
    }, []);

    function displayToast(variant, message) {
        guestConnection.host.toast.display({ variant, message });
    }

    return (
        <Provider theme={defaultTheme} colorScheme={colorScheme} height={'100vh'}>
            <View backgroundColor="gray-50">
                <View padding="size-300">
                    <Text>Please visit <Link href="https://developer.adobe.com/uix/docs/">UI Extensibility documentation</Link> to get started.</Text>

                    <Flex justifyContent="center" marginTop="size-400">
                        <ButtonGroup>
                            <Button variant="primary" onPress={() => displayToast('neutral', 'Message from the Extension')}>Click me!</Button>
                        </ButtonGroup>
                    </Flex>
                </View>
            </View>
        </Provider>
    );
}