Inheritance of Custom page property to child pages

Question

Hi,

I have added a custom page property to my page component in the Basic tab. I create a parent page with this template and assign a certain value to the custom prop. Now when I create child pages under the same parent with the same template, I want the custom property to be inherited from parent. (i.e When I open page properties of child I want to see this field pre populated with the value that I have authored in the Parent page ).

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Rohan_Garg · Accepted Answer

So if you are able to fetch the value say in your sling code then there should be no issue in setting the value. When you are creating that page, the page model class can be used to set the value.

For instance we set the header XF path based on the parent value as shown below -

@Model(adaptables = SlingHttpServletRequest.class)
public class PageModel {
   private String headerXF;

   @Inject
   InheritanceValueMap pageProperties;

   if (null != pageProperties) {
    headerXF = pageProperties.getInherited("headerXF", String.class);
   }

You can inject the page property in the sling model and set the value of that property using pageProperties.getInherited("pagePropertyName", String.class);
That should auto populate the value as on page creation the page model will set the property based on inherited values.

I hope this helps!

Best Regards,

Rohan Garg