Using AEM Content Fragments (JSON) in InDesign

[Brenton5E90]

Does anyone know how it might be possible to import content stored in AEM's Content Fragments into an InDesign document? For instance, we keep a boilerplate text library in Content Fragments (multi-line text model) and I would like to be able to pull that text into a text frame within my InDesign document. I'm not a developer/coder, but I am thinking it may be a matter of scripting within InDesign to read the JSON from AEM and importing the content. Does this sound feasible? Any insights at all would be greatly appreciated. 

[m1b]

Hi @Brenton5E90, I'm going to chime in here, just because no else has.

I honestly don't know anything about AEM, so I'm not the right person to answer. I can say that what you are asking is quite possible via script (JSON is a very easy format to use) but the amount of work depends exactly on what it needs to do. It might be best if you specify your requirements a bit better. Ideally, show an example JSON Content fragment and the Indesign document after populating with the JSON data.

However, I was really expecting someone to just say how to do it natively in Indesign. I just assumed there was an established workflow for this. But I don't know anything about AEM, so I'm may be way off base.

- Mark

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS · Accepted solution]

Since AEM Designer is based on XML, it might be something that can be done with that angle. However, Adobe FrameMaker has stronger XML features than ID does.