Author server says Loading; for a long, long, long time

August 16, 2012

- Sensei Martin

When the Author server restarts, it can look, to the users, like it is hanging because as soon as they click on a node in the left hand nav tree they see "Loading" in the central pane. It just sits there saying "Loading" for a long, long, long time.

This can be caused by having lots of old Workflow instances hanging around (check /etc/workflow/instances). In which case, you should ensure that you install the Workflow purge tool from Adobe.

The purge tool by default will clear out any Workflow instances which are less than 14 days old (well the version I have says > 1 day but the code was actually > 14 days). It can be configured to only purge COMPELTED workflow, or ALL of them. However, beware that the default configuration (in my version 1.6.1 anyway) will only purge the following workflow models :-

  • "/etc/workflow/models/dam/dam_asset_syncer_and"
  • "/etc/workflow/models/dam/update_asset"
  • "/etc/workflow/models/dam/delete_asset"
  • "/etc/workflow/models/dam/delete_dam_asset"

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Two new best practice articles now live…

August 7, 2012

We’ve just published two new articles in the CQ best practice series:

A list of the five articles published so far is at this URL. In the days to come, we’ll post more best practices, tips, and tricks that you can apply to your work.

Stay tuned!

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CQ Cloud Manager July 2012 version released!

July 24, 2012

The July release of Adobe CQ Cloud Manager is now out! This version rolls out the following new features/enhancements:

  • Full support for Rackspace Cloud Hosting (backup, scale, and delete CQ clouds)
  • Scale Publish tiers with auto-replication
  • Support for 7 Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions and 4 instance types
  • You can now remove CQ clouds with backups
  • Some UI enhancements

Refer to the documentation for more information.

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Creating custom CQ email services

July 15, 2012

- Scott Macdonald

You can create a custom CQ email service that lets CQ users send email messages from a CQ web page. To create a CQ email service, you develop an OSGi bundle that uses the Java Mail API. You can also develop a JSP that uses JQuery that calls the OSGi service and passes data that is sent as an email message.

 Caption – A CQ email client

To follow along with this development article, you need to download the Java Mail API at the following URL:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javamail/index.html

The Java Mail API is used within the OSGi bundle that sends email messages when the client initiates a request. The CQ email service comprises of a client (shown in the previous illustration) developed by using JQuery and an OSGi bundle. 

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CQ 5.5: Changes to the startup

July 11, 2012

- Jörg Hoh

See here for the major changes brought with this release.

Amongst the hundreds of new features I would like to point out a single one, which is probably the most intersting features for admins and operation people.

With CQ 5.5 the quickstart does no longer start a servlet engine with 2 webapplications deployed in it (crx.war for the CRX and launchpad.war for the OSGI container including Sling and CQ5 itself). But as now CRX has been adapted work inside an OSGI container it is possible to drop the artifical differentiation between CRX and the other parts of the system, but handle them alike inside Apache Felix. The same applies to the CQSE servlet engine; it’s now an service embedded into OSGI (so the server.log file is gone). So the quickstart starts the Felix OSGI container which then takes care of starting the repository services, the servlet engine and all other services introduced by Sling and CQ5. This streamlined the startup process a lot. And — finally — there is only 1 place where you need to change the admin password.

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CRX 2.3: snapshot backup

July 3, 2012

-- Jörg Hoh

About a year ago I wrote an improved version of backup for CRX 2.1 and CRX 2.2. The approach is to reduce the amount of data which is considered by the online backup mechanism. With CRX 2.3 this approach can still be used, but now an even better way is available.

A feature of the online backup — the blocking and unblocking of the repository for write operations — is now available not only to the online backup mechanism, but can be reached via JMX.

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New CQ best practice articles now live!

June 25, 2012

- Samartha Vashishtha, Content and Community Lead @ Adobe

We’ve just published the following three CQ best practice articles:

These articles are the first few in the CQ best practices series. In the days to come, we’ll post more best practices, tips, tricks, and troubleshooting information that you can apply to your work.

Stay tuned!

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Integrating custom CQ widgets with third-party libraries

June 25, 2012

- Scott Macdonald, Senior Content and Community Lead @ Adobe

Have you ever wondered how to create a custom CQ widget that performs tasks not available with out of the box CQ components. In this situation, you can create a CQ widget that uses third-party libraries that lets your CQ application perform custom tasks. For example, assume that you want to create a CQ application that lets you view a specific street by using Google Map APIs.

Perhaps, you want your CQ component to accept latitude and longitude values and then show the results, as shown in the following illustration.

If you are interested in learning how to create CQ components that use third-party libraries, then check out the following article:  http://helpx.adobe.com/adobe-cq/using/integrating-custom-cq-widgets-third-party.html.

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Basic CQ5 code examples

June 22, 2012

- Feike Visser, Technical Architect @Adobe

In this blogpost I will go through some sample code that you can use in your components, all samples are available out of the box.

So there is no need to write custom code in OSGi bundles for these samples.

Make sure you have this line at the beginning of your component:

This global.jsp defines a set of global taglibs and makes a number of objects available that you can use via.

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5.5 upgrade resets author password to author.

June 21, 2012

If you are upgrading to CQ 5.5, make sure you change passwords to all users.

Otherwise, you'll open up your author instance to the public.

For example, you can login here as author:author http://author:author@author.day.com

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