Surge Migrate

Foundation Search to the Quick Search Core Component

Search within the site as the visitor types. Adobe lists the Quick Search Core Component as the replacement for the Foundation Search component, which are deprecated in AEM 6.5.

What changes

  • Full search results pages built on the Foundation Search component may need a separate solution; check what your site relied on.

How to migrate

  1. Create a proxy of the Quick Search 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.