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sling:alias property not updating in language copies

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April 7, 2022
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Hi All,

I've a translated language copy page 'A' created from a language master (english copy). Later If I add sling:alias and page title property value in language master page and translate the page again,
1. sling:alias property is not adding up in the properties of the translated language copy page A. However page title property is getting updated in the existing language copy page.
2. If I add sling:alias property value in language master page and translate it for the first time, say language copy page B, property get added in the jcr:content node.

Could anyone please tell any logical reason why sling:alias is not getting added for any existing language copy page? Other page properties like page title property gets added and works as expected.

I also observed if sling:alias is set/added for any language copy page from its language master page and if I modify its value in language master and translate the page again, value set in translated language copy doesn't get updated.

Please share your experience here, it might be helpful for me to understand how this works in AEM.

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JeevanRaj

Community Advisor

Hi @meenurajput

At the initial rollout (when the corresponding page on the live copy does not exist yet), the whole content of a page is rolled out. So, the page is copied in its entirety.

At all further rollouts, some special properties are not rolled out again. Therefore, any change of such a property is not visible on the live copy page.

By default, the properties that aren't rolled out are special properties with a name that start with jcr:, cq: or sling:.

Here is a link to adobe documentation for more details on this.

https://helpx.adobe.com/in/experience-manager/kb/MSMRolloutConfig.html

Regards

M

MeenuRajputAuthor

Level 3

Hi @jeevanraj ,
Thanks for your response.
I'll totally agree with you on this. I tried all these test-cases with jcr:title property as well. As a result it didn't get updated in existing language copy page.
'pageTitle' must have been rolled out and updated in existing copy too as this doesn't come under category special properties with a name that start with jcr:, cq: or sling: .
Is there any way of overriding this default behaviour so we are able to rollout these special properties on subsequent rollout of pages?

Best Regards,
Meenu

JeevanRaj

Community Advisor

Hi @meenurajput

Updating the CQ MSM Content Update Action to exclude sling:alias worked for me. Updated sling value is sling:(?!(resourceType|resourceSuperType|alias)$).*

After updating the above value I was able to rollout sling:alias to the live copies.

Regards,

Jeevan

Ravi_Pampana

Community Advisor

Hi,

Check the below node which excludes properties starting sling:

/libs/msm/launches/rolloutconfigs/launch/contentUpdate

We need to add exclusion to the properties which we need to be part of rollout

Like : sling:(?!(resourceType|resourceSuperType)$).*

M

MeenuRajputAuthor

Level 3

Hi Ravi,
Thanks for your response. I did explore this configuration and also updated the property with sling:(?!(resourceType|resourceSuperType|alias)$).* regex expression so it would include sling:alias. However it didn't work for language copies as this configuration works for MSM when we trigger a rollout to live copies.
Can you suggest something else that i might have missed here?
Best Regards,
Meenu

Ravi_Pampana

Community Advisor

Hi Meenu,

Ideally language copy creates a launch page, I think contentupdate should work, can you check in system/console/configMgr whether the alias is added to the excludes list ?

Configuration: CQ MSM Content Update Action

Shashi_Mulugu

Community Advisor

Yes for Livecopy rollouts, we have MSM Rollout configurations available via OSGI..but for language copy updates which will get updated by creating launch copies and promoting them after, if jcr.* properties got updated in launch copies such as page titles, desc or alias fields and when we promote launches, updated content is not reflecting in Language copies as these are excluded under "/libs/msm/launches/rolloutconfigs/launch/contentUpdate"..

Question here is, how do we update a property for a node under "/libs" as it is not recommended and even Cloud Manager builds are failing because of it.

@arunpatidar @joerghoh