Using the Experience Workspace tool

Early access

Experience WorkspaceAdobe's recommended visual editor for Document Authoring (DA.live) projects. It lets you edit text and images directly on a page's rendered preview or live URL, without opening the underlying document. is a visual editor for storefront pages that use Document Authoring (DA.live) as their content source. Unlike the document editor, it shows the page as shoppers see it, allowing you to edit in Layout mode, Content mode, or Split view.

The same storefront content and Commerce block tables are available in every view. Experience Workspace changes how you edit that content, not how the page’s Commerce features work.

Early access

Experience Workspace is in early access and continues to evolve. Interface labels, configuration options, and behavior can still change, so use the linked AEM documentation as the source of truth and try it on non-critical pages first.

Before you begin

Your storefront must use Document Authoring as its content source, and you should already be able to open, preview, and publish a page in the document editor. See Create a storefront if you’re not sure, or check with your development team before you enable another editor.

Enable Experience Workspace for your project

Experience Workspace is off by default until an administrator or developer enables it for your organization or site by setting the ew.enabled configuration flag. This setup is separate from each author’s own New Authoring toggle (see the next section) and may require a developer to update your storefront’s code.

Open Enable Experience Workspace for guided setup. If you don’t have access to enable it yourself, ask an administrator or your development team to complete setup. See Experience Workspace setup for the manual instructions, or ask in the AEM Discord community if setup doesn’t work as described.

Open a page in Experience Workspace

Open a page in your Document Authoring project’s edit view, not the folder view. Enabling the project doesn’t automatically turn on Experience Workspace for you. Each author turns on New Authoring in the document editor header to open their own pages in it, and this setting doesn’t affect other authors. To return to the document editor, open your profile menu and turn off New Authoring.

The Experience Workspace interface

Open a page in Experience Workspace to see the content editor in the center, the AI Assistant panel on the left, and the tools panel on the right. If those panels are closed, you can open them from the header. An administrator might disable the assistant, so it might not appear in every project.

How to use Experience Workspace

Open the page you want to edit in Experience Workspace, then choose the view that matches your task.

Layout shows the rendered page. Select a block to reveal a contextual toolbar, then format the content in place. Use this view for most edits.

Content shows the page’s document structure, including Commerce block tables. Use this view to edit a block table or work with the underlying document instead of the rendered page.

Split view shows Layout and Content side by side, so you can see how a document change affects the rendered page as you make it.

When your edit is ready, preview and publish it the same way you do in the document editor.

For detailed editing options, block insertion, collaboration, and sheets, see Authoring pages .

Find detailed help

The AEM documentation contains the complete Experience Workspace instructions. Choose the section that matches your task:

• Experience Workspace orientation covers the content editor, AI assistant panel, tools panel, and menu bar.
• Authoring with Experience Workspace covers pages, sheets, media, navigation, versions, and publishing.
• Administering Experience Workspace covers permissions, libraries, publishing workflows, translation, and integrations.
• Developing for Experience Workspace covers developer-specific customization and upgrades.
• About Experience Workspace covers prerequisites, setup, configuration flags, and Sidekick configuration.
• Document Authoring is now Experience Workspace — new capabilities and common questions about switching from the document editor.