Adobe I/O Theme

The Adobe I/O Theme for building markdown/gdocs powered sites.

Themes allow site functionality to be packaged as a standalone product for others to easily reuse. Using a theme, all of your default configuration lives in an npm package.

View the site templates using the Adobe I/O Theme:

Documentation template

Platform template

Product template

Getting started
- Using GitHub repository templates
- Using the Adobe I/O CLI
Content structure
Configuration
Building the site
- Adding a Path Prefix
Deploying the site
- Preview on GitHub Pages
- Deploy to Azure Storage Static Websites
Writing Enhanced Markdown
Customizations
Upgrading
Issue tracker
Contributing
Releases

Getting started

This section will help you get started building a site with the Adobe I/O Theme.

Pre-requisites

Install Node.js LTS
Install a package manager like npm

Using GitHub repository templates

To initialize a site repository, you can use one of the available site templates mentioned above. Simply click on the “Use this template” button to create a new GitHub repository of the template.

The templates are pre-configured with example pages.

Using the Adobe I/O CLI

First install the Adobe I/O CLI via the Terminal

npm install -g @adobe/aio-cli

Then install the Doc Plugin by running.

aio discover -i

Select the @adobe/aio-cli-plugin-doc plugin by pressing the Spacebar and finally press Enter to install it.

For more information about the Doc plugin, see https://github.com/adobe/aio-cli-plugin-doc.

Now you can create your site by running

aio doc init path/to/site/folder

which will use by default the Documentation site template.

You can specify another template with

aio doc init path/to/doc/folder --template URL_TO_TEMPLATE_GIT_REPO

Content structure

The content of the site is written in Markdown which is both easy to read and easy to learn.

As in most cases, the markdown content is stored in GitHub, we support GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM), which provides additional functionality for common formatting needs. Additionally, Adobe extended Markdown in a few ways to support certain features see Writing Enhanced Markdown.

Markdown pages

Make sure the markdown content is located under src/pages.

It is recommended to use a folder structure to define your site pages e.g. :

root
├- src/pages [/]
│  ├- index.md
│  ├- hero.png
│  ├- api [/api/]
│  │  └- index.md
│  └- guides [/guides/]
│      ├─ index.md
│      └- get_started [/guides/get_started/]
│        ├- index.md
│        └- debugging [/guides/get_started/debugging/]
│           └- index.md
├- .env
├─ gatsby-config.js
└─ package.json

Using a folder structure with only index.md files gets you close to the final site build files. During the build process, md files will be transformed into index.html files. The build files can be found in the public folder. Please read the Overview of the Build Process for more information.

Here's a simple example of a content structure with md files and the resulting html files:

root
├- src/pages [/]
│  ├- index.md
│  ├- i_follow_recommendation [/i_follow_recommendation/]
│  │  └- index.md
│  └- i_dont_follow_recommendation.md [/i_dont_follow_recommendation/]
├- .env
├─ gatsby-config.js
└─ package.json

will output:

root
└- public
   ├- index.html
   ├- i_follow_recommendation
   │  └- index.html
   ├- i_dont_follow_recommendation
   │  └- index.html
   └- Minified JS, CSS files

You can exclude pages from the build by either moving them out of src/pages or by prefixing the filename with _.

Links

Internal links

Using markdown links to link to pages e.g. :

Relative link

[Link to mypage](../mypage.md)

Absolute link

[Link to mypage](/src/pages/mypage.md)

Add the suffix # to a link to jump to a section of the page for example if your page has a heading named Join the future, you can link to it:

[Link to mypage](../mypage.md#join-the-future)

You can also use absolute links or relative links to link between markdown pages e.g. with the example folder structure from Content Structure you can add a link from /guides/index.md to /api/index.md with:

Relative link

[Link to API](../api/)

Absolute link

[Link to API](/api/)

Please note that currently only absolute links will work with transcluded content.

External links

External links will automatically open in a new tab or window.

[Link to example.com](https://example.com)

You can prevent this behavior by adding the search parameter ?aio_internal to the link.

Assets

Images can be placed next to markdown pages inside src/pages and referenced using relative links. In this case, they'll be optimized during the build process and resulting file names are hashed to resolve potential caching issues.

Other asset types (e.g. PDFs etc.) can be placed inside a static folder at the root. Those assets are not being processed but simply copied into the public folder.

Here's a simple example of a content structure with a markdown page file and 2 different asset types:

root
├- src/pages [/]
│  ├- index.md
│  └- image.png
├- static [/]
│  └- document.pdf
├─ gatsby-config.js
└─ package.json

where image.png is referenced in index.md as an image:

![alt image](./image.png)

and document.pdf is referenced in index.md as a link:

[document](/document.pdf)

You'll find more information about the static folder at Using the Static Folder.

Please find guidance on ideal illustration sizes in this document.

Google Docs support

Instead of writing markdown pages, you can use Google Docs as external content source. Google Docs documents will be transformed into markdown pages under the hood and placed by default into src/pages. To connect to Google Docs, you'll need to setup 4 .env variables in your project :

GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID=2...m.apps.googleusercontent.com
GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET=Q...axL
GOOGLE_DOCS_TOKEN={"access_token":"ya...J0","refresh_token":"1..mE","scope":"https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly https://www.googleapis.com/auth/documents.readonly","token_type":"Bearer","expiry_date":1598284554759}
GOOGLE_DOCS_FOLDER_ID=1GHc4k.....8E5OyzuAT0Fy9

To generate the first 3 variables, open the terminal at the root of your project and run the command:

gatsby-source-gdocs2md

Then simply follow the instructions.

The last variable GOOGLE_DOCS_FOLDER_ID can be generated by retrieving the Google Docs root folder ID of your documents e.g. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/FOLDER_ID

Relative links

Google Docs won't allow you to insert relative links by default but you can workaround it by prefixing your relative urls with #! e.g. #!../mypage.

Metadata

Fill the document description field in Google Drive with a YAML object:

title: Page title
description: Page description

Exclude folders or documents

Exclude folders/documents by adding exclude: true in the description field of folders/documents to create draft pages which shouldn't be published.

Configuration

To make sure you don't run into troubles during the site build process, please follow the below configuration steps.

Environment variables

Follow these steps to configure your .env file.

Copy .env.example to .env
Add the appropriate values in the .env file

The .env should not be committed.

GitHub Contributors

GitHub's API is being called during the site build phase to retrieve the authors of every markdown page under src/pages. If the GitHub Token information is missing, the build will just print a warning, and no contributor information will be retrieved (just the contributor information in a page's front matter, if any, will be used).

To retrieve your GitHub personal access token, you can follow these steps. Only READ permissions on repositories are required for the token. For example, if your doc site repo was at https://github.com/adobe/aio-theme using the main branch, this would be what your .env would look like:

REPO_GITHUB_TOKEN=YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE
REPO_OWNER=adobe
REPO_NAME=aio-theme
REPO_BRANCH=main
REPO_ROOT=example

By default, you can omit the ROOT env var, and it should use the root folder as the source of the documentation pages. If your site is in a sub-folder, add the relative path as the ROOT.

Analytics and Feedback component

You need to set up Adobe Launch, with an Adobe Analytics Reporting Suite
In Adobe Analytics, add a custom eVar (Text String type) to capture the feedback. This eVar will contain either "yes" or "no".
In Adobe Launch, create two Data Elements:
1. Feedback-Yes: edit the code and paste in return document.querySelectorAll('button.feedback-yes')[0].innerText
2. Feedback-No: edit the code and paste in return document.querySelectorAll('button.feedback-no')[0].innerText
In Adobe Launch, for the two Data Elements, make sure these checkboxes are checked:
1. Enable Default Value
2. Force lowercase value
3. Clean text
In Adobe Launch, create three Rules:
1. Feedback-Yes: On click, it will set variables in Adobe Analytics (set the custom eVar to value of the Feedback-Yes Data Element), and then Send the Beacon
2. Feedback-No: On click, it will set variables in Adobe Analytics (set the custom eVar to the value of the Feedback-No Data Element), and then Send the Beacon
3. Analytics: On library loaded (page top), Send the Beacon
In Adobe Launch:
1. Go through the Publishing Flow, don't forget to Add All Resources
2. In Environments, select the appropriate environment, and under the Install column, select the icon
3. Copy the url displayed in the script tag

This last value will be the value you put in GATSBY_ADOBE_LAUNCH_SRC.

GATSBY_ADOBE_LAUNCH_SRC=https://your.adobe.launch.url.here

Identity Management Services

To enable IMS on the browser side, you'll need to set following env variables:

GATSBY_IMS_CONFIG - Map of client_id and scopes etc.
GATSBY_IMS_SRC - URL source of IMS library

Algolia indexing and search

Sites hosted on the developer.adobe.com domain can now add Algolia search to help users find content fast. There are two parts to adding the Algolia search feature to your site:

Add server-side environment variables to create and publish your site's content to Algolia's servers. This is an admin-only feature. Consult your site administrator for more details.
Add client-side environment variables to search your content on Algolia's servers and return content matches (with links) to users.

Server-side environment variables

Admin Only. To publish your site's content to Algolia so it's searchable, add the following variables to your site's .env file:

ALGOLIA_INDEXATION_MODE — [skip | console | index]
- skip mode - skip running of search indexation (default)
- console mode - index data will be published to console, but not pushed to real search index
- index mode - index data will be pushed to real search index
ALGOLIA_WRITE_API_KEY - Alpha-numeric string required to write index files to Algolia's servers. You should never commit this key to GitHub.
GATSBY_ALGOLIA_APP_ID - Alpha-numeric string required to access Adobe's documentation indexes.
ALGOLIA_INDEX_NAME - The name of the Algolia index where the site's content will be published. If you don't add this variable (or if you leave it blank), your site's index is auto-generated using the name of your repo. If you need to publish the site's content to another site's index (creating a shared index), add the name of the other site's index here.

Client-side (browser) environment variables

To enable search on the browser side, you'll need to set the following variables in your site's .env file:

GATSBY_ALGOLIA_APP_ID - Alpha-numeric string required to access Adobe's documentation indexes.
GATSBY_ALGOLIA_API_KEY - Alpha-numeric string required to search indexes on Algolia servers.
GATSBY_ALGOLIA_INDEX_ALL - List of all indexes to search e.g. ["index1", "index2"]
GATSBY_ALGOLIA_SEARCH_INDEX - Map of individual indexes with labels to perform search operations [{"index1": "Index 1"}, {"all": "All Results"}]. Use all to indicate that all indexes should be searched.

Global Navigation

The Global navigation links are configurable in gatsby-config.js under pages. If you follow the recommended content structure, you can define the path value using the folder names.

For example, the following folder structure maps to the URL defined in brackets:

src/pages [/]
├- index.md
├- api [/api/]
│  └- index.md
└- guides [/guides/]
   └─ index.md

then define your Global Navigation using pages in gatsby-config.js:

pages: [
  {
    title: 'Adobe Analytics',
    path: '/'
  },
  {
    title: 'Guides',
    path: '/guides/'
  },
  {
    title: 'API Reference',
    path: '/api/'
  }
]

You can also define it by pointing to the markdown files:

pages: [
  {
    title: 'Adobe Analytics',
    path: 'index.md'
  },
  {
    title: 'Guides',
    path: 'guides.md'
  },
  {
    title: 'API Reference',
    path: 'api.md'
  }
]

Search ?foo=bar and hash #foo values are also supported.

The order in which the pages are defined is respected in the Global Navigation.

If the current location corresponds to a path defined under pages, the correspond tab in the Global Navigation is set as active. Otherwise, the first defined tab is set as active by default.

At least one defined page is required. It's recommended to define the first page path as the root path /.

Menus

You can group links inside a dropdown menu in the Global Navigation with the menu field. Optionally, you can set a description to better differentiate grouped links e.g. based on the previous example:

pages: [
  {
    title: 'Adobe Analytics',
    path: 'index.md'
  },
  {
    title: 'Guides',
    path: 'guides.md'
  },
  {
    title: 'API Reference',
    menu: [{
      title: 'v2.0'
      description: 'Version 2.0 of API' // optional,
      path: '2.0/api.index'
    }, {
     title: 'v1.4'
     description: 'Version 2.0 of API' // optional,
     path: '1.4/api.index'
   }]
  }
]

Home link

The home link should be used to inform the user about a parent or sibling site external to the current one. Breadcrumbs will be displayed automatically to help the user understand its current location.

You can define a home link in gatsby-config.js for instance:

home: {
  title: 'Photoshop',
  path: 'https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html'
}

A default home link is displayed if none provided. If you don't want to display any home link, set hidden to true:

home: {
  hidden: true
}

Side Navigation

The Side navigation links are configurable in gatsby-config.js under subPages. You have to create a directory hierarchy which will be represented literally in the URL so that any sub page path starts with a path from pages.

For example, the following folder structure maps to the URL defined in brackets:

src/pages [/]
├- index.md
├- api [/api/]
│  └- index.md
└- guides [/guides/]
   ├─ index.md
   └- get_started [/guides/get_started/]
      ├- index.md
      └- debugging [/guides/get_started/debugging/]
         └- index.md

then define your Side Navigation for /guides/ using subPages in gatsby-config.js:

pages: [
  {
    title: 'Adobe Analytics',
    path: '/'
  },
  {
    title: 'Guides',
    path: '/guides/'
  },
  {
    title: 'API Reference',
    path: '/api/'
  }
],
subPages: [
  {
    title: 'Get Started',
    path: '/guides/get_started',
    pages: [
      {
        title: 'Debugging',
        path: '/guides/get_started/debugging/'
      }
    ]
  }
]

Similarly to the Global Navigation:

The order in which the sub pages are defined is respected in the Side Navigation.
Setting search and hash values in the path is supported
Linking markdown files is supported

Important: All sub pages paths have to be children of a top-level navigation path.

Variations

There are 3 variations of the Side Navigation:

Single-level side navigation
Categorical single-level side navigation
Multi-level side navigation

Please refer to the section use the right variation to understand which side navigation variation to use.

Single-level side navigation

To create a single-level side navigation, you shouldn't specify pages for subPages for example:

is matching to the following config:

pages: [
  {
    title: 'Support',
    path: '/support/'
  }
],
subPages: [
  {
    title: 'Help',
    path: '/support/'
  },
  {
    title: 'How to contribute',
    path: '/support/contribute/'
  },
  {
    title: 'FAQ',
    path: '/support/FAQ/'
  },
  {
    title: 'Community',
    path: '/support/community/'
  }
]

Single-level side navigation with headers

To create a single-level side navigation with headers, you should set header: true on top-level subPages and follow the auto-collapsing rules for example:

is matching the following config:

pages: [
  {
    title: 'Support',
    path: '/support/'
  }
],
subPages: [
  {
    title: 'Overview',
    path: '/support/',
    header: true,
    pages: [
      {
        title: 'Help',
        path: '/support/'
      },
      {
        title: 'FAQ',
        path: '/support/FAQ/'
      },
      {
        title: 'How to contribute',
        path: '/support/contribute/'
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    title: 'Community',
    path: '/support/community/',
    header: true,
    pages: [
      {
        title: 'Information',
        path: '/support/community/'
      }
    ]
  }
]

Multi-level side navigation

To create a multi-level side navigation, you have to define pages for subPages for example:

is matching the following config:

pages: [
  {
    title: 'Support',
    path: '/support/'
  }
],
subPages: [
  {
    title: 'Overview',
    path: '/support/',
    pages: [
      {
        title: 'Help',
        path: '/support/'
      },
      {
        title: 'FAQ',
        path: '/support/FAQ/'
      },
      {
        title: 'How to contribute',
        path: '/support/contribute/'
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    title: 'Community',
    path: '/support/community/',
    pages: [
      {
        title: 'Information',
        path: '/support/community/'
      }
    ]
  }
]

Auto-collapsing of multi-level side navigation

In the previous multi-level side navigation example, if the current location is /support/, Overview auto-collapses and selects Help by default because Overview and Help paths both matches the current location /support/.

It also means that if you don't want the auto-collapsing behavior, you have to define different paths for subPages than you defined for pages e.g. for the previous example, to avoid auto-collapsing of Overview, you would have to define a different path for Overview and Help:

pages: [
  {
    title: 'Support',
    path: '/support/'
  }
],
subPages: [
  {
    title: 'Overview',
    path: '/support/overview/',
    pages: [
      {
        title: 'Help',
        path: '/support/overview/help/'
      },
      {
        title: 'FAQ',
        path: '/support/overview/FAQ/'
      },
      {
        title: 'How to contribute',
        path: '/support/overview/contribute/'
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    title: 'Community',
    path: '/support/community/',
    pages: [
      {
        title: 'Information',
        path: '/support/community/'
      }
    ]
  }
]

which will render:

Use descriptive titles

Navigation should be helpful. Choose titles for navigation items that clearly represent the surfaces where they'll go. Avoid using titles that are arbitrary or un-useful, since this can pose usability issues for your product.

Be concise

Along with being descriptive, navigation items should be succinct. Reduce any unnecessary words in order to ensure simplicity. Navigation items should never be so long that they require truncation, except in instances where navigation is user-generated.

Use sentence case

Navigation items should be written in sentence case.

Use the right variation

Make sure that you are using the right variation for your products’ context and users’ needs. Don’t mix behavior, styles, or variations together in a single navigation menu:

When navigation is simple, use the single-level side navigation.
When navigation is simple but categorical, use the single-level side navigation with headers.
When navigation is expansive, hierarchical, and/or you need progressive disclosure in your menu behavior, use the multi-level side navigation.

Avoid deep nested menus

The multi-level side navigation should only go 3 levels deep. More than 3 levels will make the indentation indiscernible, which can become a major usability issue in your product.

Use consistent multi-level behavior

If top-level navigation items have a location associated with them, send the user to that location and open the sub-level navigation items. If a top-level navigation item does not have any associated location, only open the sub-level navigation items.

Side navigation can use either of these behaviors, but should never mix behaviors in the same experience.

Versions

You can specify multiple versions for your site in gatsby-config.js under versions. The first entry is the selected version by default.

versions: [
  {
    title: 'v2.0',
    selected: true
  },
  {
    title: 'v1.4',
    path: 'https://github.com/AdobeDocs/analytics-1.4-apis'
  }
],

Important: managing multiple versions inside a single repository is not supported.

Building the site

You can generate a production version of the site using following commands:

With the CLI:

aio doc generate

Or run following commands:

To build and preview a production version of the site: npm run start.
To build and preview a production version of the site with path prefix: npm run start:prefix.
To build and preview a development version of the site with hot reloading: npm run dev.

Adding a Path Prefix

Many applications are hosted at something other than the root (/) of their domain. For example, a blog could live at example.com/blog/, or a site could be hosted on GitHub Pages at example.github.io/my-site/.

To add a Path Prefix, go to your gatsby-config.js file and specify the prefix with:

pathPrefix: process.env.PATH_PREFIX || '/MY_PREFIX/'

Deploying the site

Preview on GitHub Pages

To enable GitHub Pages, go to your repository settings under the GitHub Pages section, select the gh-pages branch as source and press Save. Your site will be available for preview at https://ORG_NAME.github.io/REPO_NAME.

On every commit to the main branch, the site will be built to GitHub Pages automatically, for you to preview as a development version. This is the default branch for new repos in GitHub.

GitHub Contributors component: this will use the GitHub token automatically provided by the GitHub Action to retrieve data

Feedback component: no environmental variable should be set since GitHub Pages should only be for development purposes

Deploy to Azure Storage Static Websites

You can manually trigger the deploy workflow by pressing the Run workflow button:

Go to your repository actions overview page i.e. https://github.com/ORG/REPOSITORY/actions
Click on the "Deploy" workflow
Press Run workflow. You can choose which branch the workflow is run on and specify the deployment type (dev for development or/and prod for production).

Pre-requisites:

Setting your PATH_PREFIX as explained here. This is the sub-folder to deploy this micro-site to.

For example, if you want to deploy to https://example.com/foo/bar, you must set PATH_PREFIX to /foo/bar/
For sites deployed to the root, use / as the PATH_PREFIX

The person initiating the deploy workflow must have write access to the repository.

Writing Enhanced Markdown

Metadata with Front matter

Front matter allows an author to specify metadata for a page. For example, you can define the page meta title and description by adding front matter to the beginning of your markdown file:

---
title: Guides - Adobe Analytics
description: This is the guides overview page of Adobe Analytics
---

In addition to the GitHub contributors of a markdown file, you can specify external contributors with front matter. They'll show up first before the GitHub contributors.

---
contributors:
  - https://github.com/simonwex
---

OpenAPI

We use Redoc to render OpenAPI specs. Simply use front matter to define the spec URL.

---
openAPISpec: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AdobeDocs/analytics-2.0-apis/master/docs/swagger.json
---

JSDoc

We currently recommend to use the JSDoc to markdown converter.

Use front matter to specify a JSDoc markdown document.

---
jsDoc: true
---

Then annotate your JS parameters with <JsDocParameters/> to render them nicely see the example markdown file.

MDX

MDX is supported out of the box. MDX enables writing JSX React components in markdown giving authors new powers. Despite the markdown files having all an md extension, they are actually treated as MDX files. You can use md and mdx extensions interchangeably.

As we try to limit the use of MDX in favor of pure markdown, we have come up with a way to couple the use of basic markdown syntax with JSX.

Always make sure to close JSX blocks and use line breaks between JSX blocks and markdown content to avoid MDX parser issues.

Modular Content System

The modular content system is a set of content blocks with variants and compositions that can be used to create pages.

Content Blocks are goal-focused. A group of content that has a specific goal or intention, to structure and support the overall narrative. Examples are groupings of text, groupings of buttons, and hero content.
Variants are messaging-focused. The messaging points/content (this includes both written and visual content/images) that makes the goal of the content block happen. Examples are text content blocks with icons vs no icons.
Compositions are layout-focused. The overall narrative for the page.

A variant can go into a content block. Multiple content blocks make up a composition.

JSX Blocks

The Content Blocks are defined as JSX Blocks. They use a slots property to identify which markdown elements to ingest using only string properties. This helps maintain better readability when rendered on https://github.com.

Common slots are: heading, image and text. See below examples for full details.

Hero Block

A Hero Block should be used on every home page. Only 1 Hero Block per page is allowed. They are used to set up the tone of the page and optionally add call to actions and intentions for users.

There are 3 different variants:

The default variant for Documentation pages.
The half width variant for Product/Platform authored pages.
The full width variant for Index home pages.

Default variant:

<Hero slots="image, heading, text" background="rgb(64, 34, 138)"/>

![Hero image](./illustration.png)

# Adobe Analytics

Adobe Product API offers limitless ways to integrate your most important customer data into key business processes. Adobe Product API offer limitless ways.

Use slots to identify the markdown content:

heading (required)
text (required)
image (optional)

Use background to set a custom background color matching your color scheme. Defaults to rgb( 29, 125, 238);

Use theme to match the text color to your color scheme. Defaults to dark.

Half width variant

<Hero slots="image, icon, heading, text1, text2, buttons" variant="halfwidth" />

![Creative Cloud banner](images/cc-hero.png)

![Creative Cloud icon](images/cc-icon.png)

# Creativity for all

Start building.

Creative Cloud services include tools and capabilities to streamline your workflows so that you, your team, and your stakeholders stay perfectly in sync across projects of any size

* [Get started](https://adobe.io)
* [Sign up for the newsletter](https://adobe.io)

Use variant="halfwidth"" to set the half width variant.

Use slots to identify the markdown content:

heading (required)
text (required)
image (required)
background (optional)
icon (optional)
buttons (optional)

Full width variant

<Hero slots="image, heading, text, buttons" variant="fullwidth" background="rgb(51, 51, 51)" />

![IO banner](images/io-banner.png)

# The most memorable digital experiences are unleashed by developer creativity

Adobe products and technologies power them

* [Explore our APIs](https://adobe.io)
* [Subscribe](https://adobe.io)

Use variant="fullwidth"" to set the full width variant.

Use slots to identify the markdown content:

heading (required)
text (required)
image (required)
background (optional)
buttons (optional)

Use theme to match the text color to your color scheme. Defaults to dark.

Resources Block

Each Documentation overview page has a Resources Block with to display a list of links. They can point to internal or external documents or pages.

Only 1 Resource Block per page is allowed.

<Resources slots="heading, links"/>

#### Resources

* [Quickstart Guide](https://www.adobe.io/apis/experiencecloud/analytics/docs.html)
* [Adobe Analytics GitHub Repo](https://github.com/AdobeDocs/analytics-2.0-apis)

Use slots to identify the markdown content:

heading (required)
links (required)

Discover Block

A Discover Block is a section of content that can be used to highlight certain areas of a Documentation overview page. There can be multiple Discover Blocks in a row. Discover Blocks can be illustrated but only one illustration per row is allowed.

Single Discover Block

<DiscoverBlock width="100%" slots="heading, link, text"/>

### Get Started

[Quickstart Guide](guides/)

Get started with the Adobe Analytics APIs.

Multiple Discover Blocks in a row

<DiscoverBlock slots="heading, link, text"/>

### Guides

[Calculated Metrics API](guides/calculated_metrics_api/)

Returns information on the user's company that is necessary for making other Adobe Analytics API calls.



<DiscoverBlock slots="link, text"/>

[Segments API](guides/segments_api/)

Provides configuration guidance and best practices for the /segments endpoint.



<DiscoverBlock slots="link, text"/>

[Reporting Guide API](guides/reporting_api/)

Provides configuration guidance and best practices for the /reports endpoint.

<DiscoverBlock slots="link, text"/>

Discover Block with illustrations

<DiscoverBlock slots="image, heading, link, text"/>

![Adobe Experience Cloud](experience_cloud.png)

### Developer forum

[Get started](https://adobe.io)

Open discussion and support with community experts and Adobe staff.

<DiscoverBlock slots="link, text"/>

[Experience league](https://adobe.io)

Tutorials and videos for the community.

Use slots to identify the markdown content:

heading (1 required per row)
text (required)
link (required)
image (optional)

Use width to define the size of the block.

Code Block

A Code Block is an enhanced code section which supports additional features like request/response format, multiple languages etc.

<CodeBlock slots="heading, code" repeat="3" languages="JSON, CURL, JSON" />

#### Request

```json
{
  "rsid":"adbedocrsid",
  "globalFilters":[
    {
      "type":"dateRange",
      "dateRange":"2017-12-31T00:00:00.000/2018-01-06T23:59:59.999"
    }
  ]
}
```

#### Request

```bash
curl -X POST \
  https://analytics.adobe.io/api/{COMPANYID}/reports \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESSTOKEN}' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'x-api-key: {APIKEY}' \
  -H 'x-proxy-global-company-id: {COMPANYID}' \
  -d '{REQUESTJSON}'
```

#### Response

```json
{
  "totalPages":1,
  "numberOfElements":7,
  "number":0,
  "totalElements":7
}
```

Use slots to identify the markdown content:

heading (required)
code (required)

Use repeat to define how many code sections are part of the Code Block.

Use languages to define a language name for each code section. Code sections with the same heading are automatically grouped together.

Inline Alert Block

The Inline Alert Block is used to highlight information.

<InlineAlert variant="help" slots="text"/>

The refresh token grant type is automatically added to OAuth clients created after September 18, 2019

Use slots to identify the markdown content:

text (required)

Use variant to define the indicator type: info (default), help, error, success, warning.

Media Block

The Media Block is used to display interactive medias like videos.

<Media slots="video"/>

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkgpeWbHrjA>

Use slots to identify the markdown content:

video (required)

Announcement Block

The Announcement Block goes directly underneath the Hero Block for Product/Platform pages. It's used to call out new features, blog posts, news etc. anything that needs that needs to be surfaced above the fold.

<AnnouncementBlock slots="heading, text, button" />

### Try out the magic of Photoshop

Pull together Photoshop, Lightroom and Adobe Sensei into one place. Reduce time spent in each app, freeing you up for more creative time.

[Demo](https://www.adobe.io/apis/creativecloud/photo-imaging-api/api-demo.html)

Use slots to identify the markdown content:

heading (required)
button (required)
text (optional)

Use theme to match the text color to your color scheme. Defaults to light.

Use className to customize the component at your own risk.

Summary Block

The Summary Block acts as an anchor at the end of the page. It's a change for Products to give users another call to action, and encourage them to interact after they have gotten to the bottom of the page.

<SummaryBlock slots="image, heading, text, buttons" background="rgb(246, 16, 27)" />

![CC banner](images/cc-banner.png)

## Subscribe to the Creative Cloud developers newsletter

A monthly newsletter featuring news for anyone who creates, develops, or build plugins, extensions, or integrations for the
Creative Cloud family of products.

* [Subscribe to the newsletter](https://adobe.io)
* [Learn more](https://adobe.io)

Use slots to identify the markdown content:

heading (required)
buttons (1 button required at least)
text (optional)
image (optional)

Use background to set a custom background color matching your color scheme.

Use theme to match the text color to your color scheme. Defaults to dark.

Use className to customize the component at your own risk.

Title Block

A Title Block is used at the beginning of sections, or to frame compositions on Product/Platform pages.

<TitleBlock slots="heading, text" theme="light" />

### Collaborate better with Content Cloud APIs

With the Cloud Content APIs, you can bring design work created in XD directly to your product or service.

Use slots to identify the markdown content:

heading (required)
text (optional)

Use theme to match the text color to your color scheme. Defaults to lightest.

Use className to customize the component at your own risk.

Text Block

Text Blocks are used for layout compositions. They are areas for long blocks of text and explaining features etc. for Product/Platform pages. They are coupled with images or videos.

With an image, texts and links

<TextBlock slots="image, heading, text1, text2, links" />

![Screenshot 1](images/intro1.png)

### Extend Adobe CC Flagship Apps

Extend Creative Cloud desktop apps like [Photoshop](https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html), [Premiere Pro](https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere.html), and [InDesign](https://www.adobe.com/products/indesign.html) through our APIs and SDKs.
Be sure to check out [Common Extensibility Platform (CEP)](https://www.adobe.io/apis/creativecloud/cep.html), which lets you build custom UI panels for multiple CC apps at once.

When you're ready to ship, distribute your work on [Adobe Exchange](https://exchange.adobe.com/), the preferred marketplace for Adobe Creative Cloud users.
And be sure to join the [Exchange Program for Creative Cloud](https://partners.adobe.com/exchangeprogram/creativecloud) to unlock more benefits, including streamlined publishing and promotional opportunities.

* ![Adobe Premiere Pro](images/pr-icon.png) [Adobe Premiere Pro](https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere.html)
* ![Adobe InDesign](images/ai-icon.png) [Adobe InDesign](https://www.adobe.com/products/indesign.html)
* ![Adobe After Effect](images/ae-icon.png) [Adobe After Effect](https://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects.html)

Multiple Text Blocks in a row

<TextBlock slots="image, heading, text, links" width="33%" />

![MSFT Teams logo](images/msfteams.png)

### Microsoft teams

Easily share Creative Cloud assets and files, and get comment notifications on your prototypes.

* [Learn more](https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software)



<TextBlock slots="image, heading, text, links" width="33%" />

![JIRA Cloud logo](images/jira.png)

### JIRA Cloud

Make designer to developer handoffs easy. Find the latest designs and specs and get thumbnail previews and asset info.

* [Learn more](https://www.atlassian.com/enterprise/cloud)



<TextBlock slots="image, heading, text, links" width="33%" />

![Slack logo](images/slack.png)

### Slack

Instantly share Creative Cloud files, designs, specs, and notifications all in real time.

* [Learn more](https://slack.com/enterprise)

With a video, icons, buttons dark themed

<TextBlock slots="video, icons, heading, text, buttons" theme="dark" />

[Creative Cloud for a new era](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JemJbNJ4ZtU&ab_channel=AdobeCreativeCloud)

* ![Adobe](images/adobe.png)
* ![Microsoft](images/msft.png)

### Partner Success Story

Connect your users to Creative Cloud right from within your mobile or web apps with our service APIs. Give users access to
world-class creative assets with the Adobe Stock API, or sign up for early information on our upcoming CC Storage API.

* [Learn more](https://adobe.io)
* [Sign up for partner program](https://adobe.io)

Use slots to identify the markdown content:

heading (required)
text (required). Support multiple texts e.g text1, text2 etc.
links (optional). Supports 1 optional image per link.
buttons (optional)
icons (optional)
image (optional). image should only be defined as first or last slot to define the layout. image excludes video.
video (optional). video should only be defined as first or last slot to define the layout. video excludes image.

Use theme to match the text color to your color scheme. Defaults to lightest.

Use width to define the size of the block. Supported values are 100%, 50%, 33% and 25%;

Use isCentered to center the text.

Use className to customize the component at your own risk.

Tabs Block

Tabs block is a custom block component that allows for tabbed content that can be displayed either vertically or horizontally.


<TabsBlock orientation="vertical" slots="heading, image, content" theme="light" />

### Create PDF from URL

![Create PDF](images/createpdf.svg)

<Overview/>

<TabsBlock orientation="vertical" slots="heading, content" theme="light" />

### Dynamic PDF Document Generation

<Overview/>


<TabsBlock orientation="horizontal" slots="heading, image, content" theme="light" />

### Create PDF from URL

![Create PDF](images/createpdf.svg)

<Overview/>

<TabsBlock orientation="horizontal" slots="heading, content" theme="light" />

### Dynamic PDF Document Generation

<Overview/>

Use slots to identify the markdown content:

heading (1 required per row)
image (optional)
content (1 required per row)

Use theme to match the text color to your color scheme. Defaults to light.

Use orientation to tabs can be either horizontal or vertical. Defaults to horizontal.

Use repeat to define how many tab items sections are part of the tabs Block.

Product Card

Product Cards group information that allow to browse a collection of related content.

<ProductCard slots="icon, heading, text, buttons" theme="light" width="33%" />

![CC icon](images/cc-icon.png)

#### CC Storage API

CC Storage API lets you access and modify assets stored in the Creative Cloud, the world's most popular creative platform.

* [Learn more](https://adobe.io)
* [View docs](https://adobe.io)



<ProductCard slots="icon, heading, text, buttons" theme="light" width="33%" />

![CC icon](images/cc-icon.png)

#### Adobe Stock

Gives your users access to the perfect Adobe Stock asset to enhance their creative projects.

* [Learn more](https://adobe.io)
* [View docs](https://adobe.io)



<ProductCard slots="icon, heading, text, buttons" theme="light" width="33%" />

![CC icon](images/cc-icon.png)

#### Common Extensibility Platform

Build extensions with HTML, CSS, Javascript and Node. Deploy across multiple Adobe apps.

* [Learn more](https://adobe.io)
* [View docs](https://adobe.io)

Use slots to identify the markdown content:

heading (required)
text (required)
buttons (1 button required at least)
icon (optional)

Use theme to match the text color to your color scheme. Defaults to lightest.

Use width to define the size of the block. Supported values are 100%, 50%, 33% and 25%;

Product Card Grid

Use Product Card Grid to display Product Cards with filter and sort options based on meta data.

Set interaction to true to display the filter and sort options.

See the data example to provide for clouds and products.

<ProductCardGrid clouds={clouds} products={products} interaction={true} />

Use orderBy to define the default ordering. Choose between last_updated and name.

Use filterByCloud to define the default cloud filter. You can define multiple clouds by default filterByCloud={[cloud1, cloud2]}.

Use filterByIds to define a custom filter e.g. filterByIds=[1, 3, 4] to display products with ids 1, 3 and 4 in that order.

Resource Card

Resource Cards are used on Product/Platform pages for external cross-promotion of materials. Examples includes articles, videos etc.

There are 2 variants: horizontal and vertical Resource Cards. Use multiple Resource Cards with different variants to create a Resource composition.

<ResourceCard slots="link, image, heading, text" width="33%"/>

[Adobe I/O](https://adobe.io)

![Resource 3](images/resource3.png)

### Creating a Great Adobe XD Plugin Listing

Rob Kleiman, July 8th 2020



<ResourceCard slots="link, image, heading, text" width="33%" />

[Adobe I/O](https://adobe.io)

![Resource 1](images/resource1.png)

### Pattern Builder: A Behind the Scenes Look at Adobe Capture

Nihil Gupta, July 24th 2020



<ResourceCard slots="link, image, heading, text" width="33%" />

[Adobe I/O](https://adobe.io)

![Resource 1](images/resource2.png)

### Photoshop Extensibility Enters a New Era Soon: How to get Involved Early

Ash Ryan Arnwine, March 12th 2020

Use slots to identify the markdown content:

link (required)
heading (required)
image (required)
text (optional)

Use theme to match the text color to your color scheme. Defaults to lightest.

Use width to define the size of the block. Supported values are 100%, 50% and 33%.

Carousel

Carousel is used to show the information along with images and buttons.

<Carousel slots="image,heading, text, buttons" repeat="2"  theme="light"  />

![Resource 3](images/resource3.png)

#### CC Storage API

CC Storage API lets you access and modify assets stored in the Creative Cloud, the world's most popular creative platform.

* [Learn more](../guides)
* [View docs](../guides)



![Resource 3](images/resource3.png)

#### CC Storage API

CC Storage API lets you access and modify assets stored in the Creative Cloud, the world's most popular creative platform.

* [Learn more](../guides)
* [View docs](../guides)

Use slots to identify the markdown content:

image (required)
heading (optional)
text (required)
buttons(optional)

Use theme to match the text color to your color scheme. Defaults to dark.

Use repeat to define how many code sections are part of the carousel.

Embedding markdown documents and filtering content

You can use MDX transclusion to embed markdown documents into other markdown documents see the MDX documentation.

Embedding local markdown files

For example, if you want to include the content of overview.md into index.md:

index.md content:

import Overview from './overview.md'

# Welcome

Lorem ipsum

<Overview/>

## Questions

Lorem ipsum

overview.md content:

## Overview

Lorem ipsum

index.md will be rendered as:

# Welcome

Lorem ipsum

## Overview

Lorem ipsum

## Questions

Lorem ipsum

Embedding external markdown files

Sites are using npm to define dependencies so we can also include external markdown documents.

You have to define a name in the package.json like here to be able to include it as a dependency in another site.

You don't have to release the site on npm since npm supports installing dependencies using github repository urls. For example, to install https://github.com/AdobeDocs/dev-site-documentation-template/ as a dependency in another site, you can run the command npm install --save adobedocs/dev-site-documentation-template;

Your site package will show up under node_modules/[PACKAGE_NAME] e.g. node_modules/dev-site-documentation-template.

See full example below using a Variant block.

Filtering content with Variant Blocks

Together with Variant Blocks, the author can query what should be rendered from external sources.

This allows to write content once, and reuse it everywhere.

For example, let's say there are 2 repositories named http://github.com/adobedocs/repo1 and http://github.com/adobedocs/repo2. Both are sites using the theme and have markdown content defined under src/pages.

repo1 has reusable markdown content written with Variant Blocks under /src/pages/debugging/index.md:

## How to Debug Your Plugin

Bugs happen! In this tutorial, you will learn how to debug your plugin.

<Variant product="XD" repeat="2" />

First launch the XD console, by clicking Developer > Console

[XD link](https://adobe.io)

<Variant product="Photoshop" repeat="2" />

First launch the Photoshop console, by clicking Developer > Console

[Photoshop link](https://adobe.io)

<Variant test="image" repeat="2" />

#### Image

![image](../test/image.png)

Use repeat to define how many elements are part of the Variant Block. Use any key=value property to mark your Variant Block.

repo2 added repo1 as dependency with npm install --save adobedocs/repo1 to be able to reference its markdown content.
repo2 embeds repo1 content by using the import statement and inserts the content in its own markdown together with a query filter to only display what is needed.

import Debugging from 'repo1/src/pages/debugging/index.md'

# Debugging

<Debugging query="product=Photoshop" />

More content

will be rendered as:

# Debugging

## How to Debug Your Plugin

Bugs happen! In this tutorial, you will learn how to debug your plugin.

First launch the Photoshop console, by clicking Developer > Console

[Photoshop link](https://adobe.io)

More content

You can query multiple elements, for example you can add the section with the image by adding it to the query.

 <Debugging query="product=Photoshop&image=test" />

Customizations

When using themes, you can take advantage of something called shadowing. This allows you to override the default component included in the theme with a custom one you’ve created.

The Adobe I/O Theme package has a component to render code using the Prism syntax highlighter. With shadowing, you can override the component to provide your own.

If you look at the file tree of your site, you’ll see it looks something like this:

root
├─ src/pages
│   ├- index.md
│   └- etc.
├- .env
├─ gatsby-config.js
└─ package.json

To enable shadowing, you need to add a folder called @adobe/gatsby-theme-aio. Any file placed in that directory with a path that matches the path of a file from the theme will completely shadow the file.

So the new folder structure with shadowing enabled will look like following:

root
├─ src
│  ├- pages
│  │  ├- index.md
│  │  └- etc.
│  └- @adobe
│     └- gatsby-theme-aio
│        └- components
│           └- Code
│              └- index.js
├- .env
├─ gatsby-config.js
└─ package.json

You can define your own Code components under src/@adobe/gatsby-theme-aio/components/Code/index.js.

Notice omitting the src directory in the shadow folder.

Custom layout

You can build pages without the default layout by setting layout to none within the page front matter. The Global Header, Footer, Side Navigation etc. are always shown but anything in between can be customized.

See the example markdown file.

Frame

This can be useful if you want to embed pages from another system. The embedded page will be framed between the Global Header and Footer. Simply set frameSrc to the url of the external page within the front matter.

See the example parent page and child page which leverages the Penpal library to create a communication channel to exchange information.

Theming

Currently, you can only define a light or dark theme for Code blocks. By default, Code blocks are displayed in dark theme. To change Code blocks from dark to light theme, you have to shadow the theme/index.js file:

export default {
  code: 'light'
};

Upgrading

Locally

To upgrade to the latest version of the theme, simply run npm update if you have defined the dependency with a version range selector. If not, update the version of the dependency by setting the version manually in the package.json and run npm install.

This will also update the lock file package-lock.json.

Automated

We recommend to setup GitHub dependabot in your site repository. Simply copy the dependabot file in your .github folder.

The bot will automatically submit pull requests to keep your version of the theme up to date. Please make sure to use a version range selector for your dependencies in your package.json.

Issue tracker

Use the GitHub issue tracker to report issues, ask questions or log feature requests. Any feedback is welcome !

Please check existing issues before filing anything new.

Contributing

Contributions are welcomed! Read the Contributing Guide for more information.

See Conventional Commits for commit guidelines.

Releases

You can check the latest released version of the theme at https://github.com/adobe/aio-theme/releases.

This repository is setup as a monorepo using lerna for automated publishing to NPM.

Use GH_TOKEN=[YOUR_GH_TOKEN] lerna version --create-release github --conventional-commits --no-private -m "chore(release): publish" for publishing the theme on npm.

simonwex/aio-theme

Adobe I/O Theme

Contents

Getting started

Using GitHub repository templates

Using the Adobe I/O CLI

Content structure

Markdown pages

Links

Internal links

External links

Assets

Google Docs support

Relative links

Metadata

Exclude folders or documents

Configuration

Environment variables

GitHub Contributors

Analytics and Feedback component

Identity Management Services

Algolia indexing and search

Server-side environment variables

Client-side (browser) environment variables

Global Navigation

Menus

Home link

Side Navigation

Variations

Single-level side navigation

Single-level side navigation with headers

Multi-level side navigation

Auto-collapsing of multi-level side navigation

Use descriptive titles

Be concise

Use sentence case

Use the right variation

Avoid deep nested menus

Use consistent multi-level behavior

Versions

Building the site

Adding a Path Prefix

Deploying the site

Preview on GitHub Pages

Deploy to Azure Storage Static Websites

Writing Enhanced Markdown

Metadata with Front matter

OpenAPI

JSDoc

MDX

Modular Content System

JSX Blocks

Hero Block

Resources Block

Discover Block

Code Block

Inline Alert Block

Media Block

Announcement Block

Summary Block

Title Block

Text Block

Tabs Block

Product Card

Product Card Grid

Resource Card

Carousel

Embedding markdown documents and filtering content

Embedding local markdown files

Embedding external markdown files

Filtering content with Variant Blocks

Customizations

Custom layout

Frame

Theming

Upgrading

Locally

Automated

Issue tracker

Contributing