Posts in Category "CQ/CRX"

CQ5: Phantom fields appearing in IE after scrolling

Posted on May 21, 2013 by dmcmahon | Comments (0)

Issue

If you are using CQ5 in Internet Explorer 8 or 9, you may notice phantom fields appearing after dismissing a dialog in the browser, and then scrolling the browser page.

phantom_fields

TestCase1
1) Goto /content/geometrixx/en/toolbar/feedback.html
2) Open the dialog of one field (eg. Name)
3) Cancel the dialog
4) Scroll the browser window
=> Phantom form fields appear.

TestCase2
1) Goto /content/geometrixx-outdoors/en/men.html
2) Open the edit dialog of the “Navigation Products”-Component
3) Click on “Cancel”
4) Scroll the browser window
=> Phantom form fields appear.

Reason

This issue is caused by a problem in the CSS which controls the layout of the page in author mode.

Solution

This issue will be fixed in CQ 5.6.1 and later versions.

Workaround

To workaround this issue in CQ5.5  SP2.1 you can use the following overlay to fix the CSS: reset_css_overlay_44088-1.0.zip

reference: (44088/CQ5-29678)

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Adobe CQ/AEM support tools available

Posted on April 24, 2013 by dmcmahon | Comments (1)

We have recently published a package with support tools that can be useful to help diagnose issues encountered with Adobe Experience Manager.  As the tools project continues to mature, additional tools will be provided to ease the overall diagnosis and maintenance of CQ.

Overview of tools in 1st release:

  • Logs Viewer – Provides an easy way to download all CQ logs.  The tail functionality will open a new window and start tailing the log file.  Multiple log directories can be configured via Logs Tail Plugin.  The crx-quickstart/logs is used as default if configuration is not bound.  This tool can also be used with curl.  Allows you to package up all the logs in one single click making it easy to provide the logs when opening a Daycare ticket.  Detailed info here: http://helpx.adobe.com/content/help/en/cq/kb/logsviewer.html
  • Tar PM Scan – Scans tar files and displays node path and size for each record.  This can be useful when analyzing abnormal workspace growth.  Large individual node sizes could indicate a flat hierarchy (i.e. a large child node list > 1000).  The same nodes appearing repeatedly in the scan could indicate a code issue or some other problem related to updating the same nodes repeatedly.  Detailed info here: http://helpx.adobe.com/content/help/en/cq/kb/tarpmscan.html
  • Thread Dumps Collection & Analysis - Takes thread dumps at regular intervals and saves them in a file under crx-quickstart/threads.  The page will also display a list of links to existing thread dump files.  The tool can use jstack, if it is installed on the system, or JVM MBean.  Detailed info here: http://helpx.adobe.com/content/help/en/cq/kb/thread-dumps-collection-analysis.html
  • Content Compare & Import – Used to compare and import content differences from one CQ instance to another CQ instance.  This helps to ensure consistency across servers.  Detailed info here: http://helpx.adobe.com/content/help/en/cq/kb/contentcompareimport.html

Download and install

The tools are supported for use with CQ5.5, AEM5.6 and later versions.  Here are the instructions to download and install the support tools: http://helpx.adobe.com/cq/kb/support-tool-installation.html

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AEM5.6: Socoadmin: reply button and refresh issues in moderation UI

Posted on April 23, 2013 by dmcmahon | Comments (0)

Issue

If you are using the classic UI (/socoadmin) for social moderation in AEM5.6, you may notice some strange behaviour as follows

Reply button disabled
1) Go to http://localhost:4502/socoadmin
2) Select a blog comment from Geometrixx

Result: reply button is always disabled.  Expected: reply button to be enabled for blog comments.

Refresh issue
1) Go to http://localhost:4502/socoadmin
2) Select a forum post from Geometrixx
3) Click the Deny button

Result: status remains OK (same for Approve and Spam actions).  Expected: page refreshes and status is updated to Denied.  Note: Refreshing the page manually shows the correct status.

Reason

These issues are caused by a missing property (id=cq-collabadmin) on the /libs/collab/core/content/admin node in the repository related to the collaboration objects.

Solution

These issues will be fixed in a future version of AEM.  These issues do not occur in CQ5.5, or using the new touch UI in AEM5.6.

Workaround

To resolve the issues (no refresh and reply disabled), install the following overlay for AEM5.6: 44362-socoadminFix-1.0.zip

This overlays the /libs/collab/core/content/admin node and adds the missing id=cq-collabadmin property. Afterwards the reply button in socoadmin is enabled for blog comments, and a refresh occurs as expected after an Approve/Deny/Spam is executed.

reference: (44362/CQ5-30096)

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CQ5.5: Activated images in publisher are displayed as pending in DAM search results

Posted on April 2, 2013 by dmcmahon | Comments (0)

Issue

If you are activating images in DAM, and then searching for those images in DAM search as detailed below, you may notice that the image activation status appears as “pending” in the search results.

  1. Open DAM
  2. Navigate to a folder with images (example: /content/dam/geometrixx/banners)
  3. Activate all the images.
  4. Ensure that the image status is published.
  5. Switch to DAM search.
  6. Enter a search string (example: .png)

Result: The activated images appear as pending for activation.

dam_search

Reason

This is an issue in CQ5.5 and has been resolved in AEM 5.6 and later versions.

Solution

Upgrade to AEM 5.6.

reference: (43813/CQ5-23686)

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CQ5: Failure running script /etc/workflow/scripts/workitem.ecma: ReferenceError: “workItem” is not defined

Posted on March 26, 2013 by dmcmahon | Comments (0)

Issue

If you are using custom ECMA scripts in workflows with CQ5, you may encounter an error similar to the following when executing the workflow:

*ERROR* POST /etc/workflow/instances HTTP/1.1] com.day.cq.workflow.rule.impl.ScriptingRuleEngine
Unable to execute rule /etc/workflow/scripts/workitem.ecma: Failure running script /etc/workflow/scripts/workitem.ecma:
ReferenceError: “workItem” is not defined (/etc/workflow/scripts/workitem.ecma#2)
org.apache.sling.api.scripting.ScriptEvaluationException: Failure running script /etc/workflow/scripts/workitem.ecma:
ReferenceError: “workItem” is not defined (/etc/workflow/scripts/workitem.ecma#2)

Reason

In an OR step for a workflow, only the workflowData, jcrSession, and workflowSession objects are available to be used within the check() function.

Solution

You should use the workflowData, jcrSession, and workflowSession objects in your ECMA script to implement the logic.

reference: (44185/CQ5-11022)

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CQ5.5: Wrong default values displayed in forms with IE8

Posted on March 24, 2013 by dmcmahon | Comments (0)

Issue

If you add show/hide rules on a Form (Dropdownlist or Radio Group) and set initial values as detailed below, the wrong default values are displayed on a publish instance in IE8.

1.) Create a new form
2.) Add two DDL components to the form
3.) Add three values (elema, elemb, elemc, …) to each DDL
4.) Set title=’Title 2′ and initial value to ‘elemb’ for 2nd DDL
5.) Set title=’Title 1′ and the initial value to ‘elema’ for 1st DDL
6.) Add the following rule (check ‘show/hide’) to Title 1: Show Title 1 if all of the following are met: Title 2 is equal to elemb
7.) Goto Preview, or Activate the page and call it on publish instance, or call it on author instance with param ‘wcmmode=disabled’

Result:
In IE 8, Title 1 is not shown (that is wrong), Title 2 displays elemc (that is wrong). If you change Title 2=elemb, then Title 1 does become visible, but with default value elemc (that is wrong).

Expected:
elema is shown as default value in the first DDL and elemb in second one.

Reason

This seems to be related to a problem in IE8.

Solution
The problem does not occur in Chrome (tested with version 27), Firefox (tested with version 19) or IE9.

reference: (43824/CQ5-29485)

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CRX 2.2: DelegatingObservationDispatcher: Error while dispatching events… java.lang.NullPointerException

Posted on March 20, 2013 by dmcmahon | Comments (0)

Issue

If you are using CQ5.3/CRX2.2 you may notice the following error in the log files:

*ERROR* DelegatingObservationDispatcher: Error while dispatching events. (DelegatingObservationDispatcher.java, line 129)
 java.lang.NullPointerException
  at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.security.authorization.acl.CompiledPermissionsImpl.canRead(CompiledPermissionsImpl.java:215)
  at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.security.DefaultAccessManager.canRead(DefaultAccessManager.java:251)
  at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.observation.EventConsumer.canRead(EventConsumer.java:306)
  at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.observation.EventConsumer.prepareEvents(EventConsumer.java:158)
  at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.observation.ObservationDispatcher.prepareEvents(ObservationDispatcher.java:184)
  at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.observation.EventStateCollection.prepare(EventStateCollection.java:459)
  at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.observation.DelegatingObservationDispatcher.dispatch(DelegatingObservationDispatcher.java:126)
  at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.observation.DelegatingObservationDispatcher.dispatchEvents(DelegatingObservationDispatcher.java:99)
  at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.observation.EventStateCollection.dispatch(EventStateCollection.java:475)
 ...

Reason

This error occurs due to an issue in Jackrabbit issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-3272.

It occurs as the canRead() method in CompiledPermissionsImpl.java is checking for read access on an item that does not exist anymore.  It should therefore throw a RepositoryException, instead of resulting in an NPE.

We have had previous reports of this issue, but it did not have any effect on the server state or stability. In the later hotfixpacks for CRX, this NPE will be logged at the WARN level and not ERROR.

Solution

This has been fixed in a later release of the Jackrabbit core, version 2.4.  You can ignore this error or apply the latest crx-hotfixpack from PackageShare to resolve the problem.

reference: (43919/CRX-4113)

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CQ5.5 SP1: Inserting variables in newsletters doesn’t work in Chrome

Posted on March 18, 2013 by dmcmahon | Comments (0)

Issue

If you are using Chrome with CQ5.5 SP1 and attempting to insert variables into newsletters as detailed below, you may notice that the variables are not inserted as expected.

1. Open Chrome and go to http://localhost:4502/content/campaigns/geometrixx/monthly_newsletter.emailclient.html
2. Double click on a text component to open the Edit component window.
3. Click on insert to insert a variable, for example ‘Firstname’.

Result: The variable isn’t inserted, and Chrome logs a javascript error: “Uncaught error: Index size error: DOM Exception 1″.

Solution

This issue is fixed in CQ5.5 SP2.1.  Chrome is only supported in CQ5.5 SP2.1 and later versions, as we made many changes to offer Chrome support in these versions.

Workaround

The procedure above works fine in Firefox and Internet Explorer.

reference: (44087/CQ5-16244)

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CQ5: Fulltext search not working for asset content

Posted on February 13, 2013 by dmcmahon | Comments (0)

Issue

You are searching in CQ5 for text contained within assets like PDF & Word documents in DAM, and not getting any results.

Solution

This issue is resolved in CQ5.5 SP1 and SP2 and later versions.  You should download these updates from PackageShare and update your CQ instance.

After updating CQ new documents in DAM will be indexed, but the existing documents will not.  Perhaps this is acceptable if you are just setting up a new instance, and do not have any existing documents that you need indexed.

To get existing documents indexed, you will have to re-build the lucene index as follows:
[1] Open http://<host>:<port>/system/console/bundles
[2] Find the ID for the following bundles

  • Apache PDFBox (org.apache.pdfbox)
  • Apache Tika core (org.apache.tika.core)
  • Apache Tika parsers (org.apache.tika.parsers)

[3] Look into crx-quickstart/launchpad/felix for the folders corresponding to the 3 IDs in [2]:

  • crx-quickstart/launchpad/felix/bundleXX

[4] For each bundle in [3], change the value in the bundle.startlevel from 15 to 14
[5] Restart CQ and check in the Felix console that the 3 bundles has the start level set to 14.
[6] Stop CQ
[7] Delete crx-quickstart/repository/workspaces/crx.default/index folder
[8] Restart CQ and wait for the indexing to complete

reference: (44511/GRANITE-761)

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CQ5.5 SP2.1: First deployment of system bundle fragment leads to server shutdown

Posted on February 8, 2013 by dmcmahon | Comments (0)

Issue

If you are deploying a system bundle fragment for the 1st time to CQ, you may notice that the CQ server shuts down.

Solution

This issue is fixed in later CQ versions.  If you have an M&S contract and require an urgent hotfix for this in CQ5.5 SP2.1 you should contact Daycare support.

Workaround

Restart the CQ instance manually and everything should work as normal.

reference: (44186/NPR-2555)

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CRXDE Lite: IllegalStateException: I18nManager not initialized

Posted on January 10, 2013 by dmcmahon | Comments (0)

Issue

If you have installed a hotfix for CRX you may encounter problems accessing CRXDE Lite accompanied by the following error in the server.log:

*MARK * servletengine: Servlet threw exception:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: I18nManager not initialized
at com.day.crx.i18n.I18nManager.getInstance(I18nManager.java:59)
at org.apache.jsp.de.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:59)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:98)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:328)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:315)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.ServletRuntimeEnvironment.service(ServletRuntimeEnvironment.java:228)
at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.RequestDispatcherImpl.doFilter(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:315)
at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.RequestDispatcherImpl.service(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:334)
at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.RequestDispatcherImpl.service(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:378)
at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.ServletHandlerImpl.execute(ServletHandlerImpl.java:315)
at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.DefaultThreadPool$DequeueThread.run(DefaultThreadPool.java:134)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

Reason

This problem is usually caused by a version mis-match in JAR library files which were installed through the CRX hotfix.

Solution

You should check for JAR conflicts with the versions contained in the hotfix as listed in the hotfix release notes.

You may need to copy the JAR files from:

…\crx-quickstart\server\runtime\0\_crx\WEB-INF\lib

to here:

…\crx-quickstart\server\lib\container

If this is a non-quickstart installation, then there are instructions in the HF release notes to manually delete older versions of JAR libs:

“Make sure to delete previous versions of installed Java libraries below <crx-webapp>/WEB-INF/lib to avoid classloading issues.”

reference: (33826)

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CQ5: ClearableComboBox widget renders with 0px width and causes text-clipping

Posted on January 9, 2013 by dmcmahon | Comments (0)

Issue

If you are using a ClearableComboBox widget on the second tab of a dialog, the widget is rendered with 0px width after selecting a value, which means the value is hidden/clipped.

-Install attached package into a CQ instance, it’s a modified dialog for the text component
-Open /content/geometrixx/en.html and drag a text component to the parsys
-Open the dialog for the text component
-Click on the tab “Bug Test” and select a value from the Combobox “ClearableComboBox”
-Important: Click on the tab “Text” to move away from the “Bug Test” tab
-Close the dialog with OK and open it again (usually just switching between tabs also shows the issue)
-Click on the tab “Bug Test”

Result: ClearableComboBox is rendered with no width, so value is not visible

Expected: ClearableComboBox to be rendered correctly so value is visible (ComboBox works fine)

Workaround
Using the ClearableComboBox widget on the 1st tab in the dialog, works fine.

Solution

You must add a new property hideMode to the dialog tab (not the combobox) in your custom text component, and set it’s value to offsets.  See the following screenshot for more details.

solution_screenshot

With this property set, the combobox width is maintained even when the dialog tab/panel is not visible.

reference: (43540/CQ5-29349)

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CQ5.5 SP2.1: Links/References are not updated following move/rename

Posted on December 13, 2012 by dmcmahon | Comments (0)

Issue

If you are using CQ5.5 SP2.1 and move/rename pages in the tree, you may notice that the links/references to those pages are not updated as expected.

Method

Add links in /content/geometrixx/en/products/triangle.html, pointing to the parent page, a sibling page, and a child page.
Move /content/geometrixx/en/products to /content/geometrixx/en/productsRenamed.

Result

None of the links in /content/geometrixx/en/products/triangle are adjusted to the new target /content/geometrixx/en/productsRenamed/….

Reason

This works in the base version CQ 5.5 and is a regression introduced by SP 2.1

Solution

This issue will be fixed in the next service-pack for CQ5.5 and later versions.  If you require a hotfix for this issue for SP2.1, please contact the support team through Daycare and request “cq-5.5.0-hotfix-2582″.

reference: (40612/CQ5-23844)

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CQ5.5 SP1: Editing page properties in siteadmin does not work correctly

Posted on December 13, 2012 by dmcmahon | Comments (0)

Issue

If you are using CQ5.5 SP1 and you edit the page properties in siteadmin, this may not work as expected.  For example, vanity URLs added to the page properties may not work correctly.

Reason

The issue with the page properties occurs because the node jcr:primaryType gets changed from cq:PageContent into nt:unstructured, due to a change in the latest Sling POST servlet.  The only way to avoid this node change with SP1  is to edit the page properties of a page using the sidekick within each page view.

Solution

This issue is resolved in CQ5.5 SP2.1, and later versions.

Workaround

If you cannot update to SP2.1 at this time there is a workaround using an overlay which you can install to avoid this problem.

Download and install the attached content package (SiteAdmin.Actions.js-overlay_40752.zip), containing an overlay of SiteAdmin.Actions.js, which prevents the nodetype of the jcr:content node being changed to nt:unstructured.  Once the package is installed, please make sure to clear your browser cache to avoid potential client-side caching issues.

After upgrading to SP2.1 be sure to remove this overlay.

reference: (40752/CQ5-18787)

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CQ5.5: SlingException running workflowreport.html

Posted on November 21, 2012 by dmcmahon | Comments (0)

Issue

If you are using the workflow report under /etc/reports/workflowreport.html it may return with an error 500 in the browser and the following exception:

org.apache.sling.api.SlingException:
    at org.apache.sling.scripting.jsp.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspExceptionInternal(JspServletWrapper.java:686)
    at org.apache.sling.scripting.jsp.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:603)
    at org.apache.sling.scripting.jsp.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:528)
    at org.apache.sling.scripting.jsp.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:447)
…
Caused by: org.apache.sling.api.SlingException: An exception occurred processing JSP page /libs/cq/workflow/components/report/report.jsp at line 132
… 74 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.apache.jsp.libs.cq.workflow.components.report.report_jsp._jspService(report_jsp.java:309)
    at org.apache.sling.scripting.jsp.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)
    at org.apache.sling.scripting.jsp.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:497)
… 97 more

Reason

This problem can occur when a workflow model is deleted, but that workflow model had been used to start multiple processes, and therefore workflow statistics for that model exist.  This is a product issue and has been addressed in CQ5.6.

Workaround

As a workaround you can use the attached overlay for
/apps/cq/workflow/components/report/report.jsp
instead of the problematic
/libs/cq/workflow/components/report/report.jsp

workflow_report_overlay_40332-1.0.zip

The workaround will resolve the NullPointerException and the workflow report will display as expected, but there are still some unresolved exceptions in the server log. These will be resolved with the full product fix.

reference: (40332/CQ5-23798)

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