Creating a custom action for an Adobe Experience Manager Form component

You can create an Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) form using various form components located in the Forms Category and submit the data to a custom form action. The custom form action can send the data to an Experience Manager service that can process the data using Java application logic to meet your business requirements. For example, you can store the data in the AEM JCR, in a relational database or send the data within an email message (as a few examples). However, to keep this article simple, the custom AEM service writes the posted data to the AEM log file.

An Experience Manager form can be consumed in a mobile device or a web browser running on a desktop. For example, consider a desktop-user filling out the following form.


You can build a custom form action that is invoked when an end-user fills out the form and clicks the submit button. In this article, the customs form action named customFormAction is created, as shown in the following illustration.


This article steps you through how to build a custom form action that sends data to an Experience Manager service build using Java APIs. To read this development article, click https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/form_component_customaction.html.