Surge Migrate

Foundation Form Checkbox, Form Radio, Form Dropdown to the Form Options Core Component

One component for checkboxes, radio buttons and drop-downs. Adobe lists the Form Options Core Component as the replacement for the Foundation Form Checkbox, Form Radio, Form Dropdown components, which are deprecated in AEM 6.5.

What changes

  • Each Foundation field becomes Form Options with the corresponding type; option lists need mapping.

How to migrate

  1. Create a proxy of the Form Options Core Component in your project under /apps and point templates and policies at it, so future Core Component versions are a one-line change.
  2. Configure the template policy (allowed options, styles) to match what authors could do before.
  3. Write a conversion rule that maps existing Foundation content to the new component's properties; Adobe's AEM Modernization Tools apply such rules to content in bulk.
  4. Run the conversion on a copy of production content, compare rendered pages side by side, then let authors test editing.

Sources: Adobe: Developing Core Components (component list); Adobe: Foundation Components (AEM 6.5). Checked 20 October 2026.