Post-Generation Workflow Sample Troubleshooting

[aimmta]

I've been working on getting a sample AEM workflow up and running. I'm using the sample, post-generation workflow documented here: Post Generation Workflow | Adobe Experience Manager. This particular workflow is interesting because it captures the AEM metadata. My content is authored in DITA using AEM Guides. I downloaded the sample package and loaded it into my localhost using CRXDE. I followed the instructions in creating an output preset (PDF). When I generate output from Guides, I am getting an error message in Assets:

From the Assets page, I am selecting the Advance option to move the workflow to the finalize process.

I am attaching the log file as a zip file.

[EstebanBustamante]

Can you post the error.log from AEM? 

[aimmta]

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13:18:25.284 *** FOLDER: /tmp/RHTMP/logs_1687889905225.log ***
/mnt/crx/author/crx-quickstart/profiles/nodejs--b1aad0a7-9079-e56c-1ed8-6fcababe8166/build/publish_server/publish_server.js
/mnt/crx/author/crx-quickstart/profiles/nodejs--b1aad0a7-9079-e56c-1ed8-6fcababe8166/build/static
(node:9417) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'padLevels' of module exports inside circular dependency
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
IpcRenderer calling from [
'background-response',
{
key: 'PROJECT_DATA',
value: ProjectModel {
title: 'PDFProject',
parentid: '',
id: 'fafd95b2-aec1-44d2-8061-c94a39e0f843',
version: '2020.7.0',
language: 'en_US',
noInlineStyle: false,
hideBookmarks: false,
advancedHtmlHelpOptions: false,
defaultCss: 'contents/assets/css/default.css',
defaultWsf: 'settings/import/word/default.wsf',
defaultFsf: 'settings/import/fm/default.fsf',
layoutsFolder: '',
colors: [],
content: [Object],
conditional: [Object],
variable: [Object],
tocs: [Object],
glossary: [Object],
index: [Object],
seealso: [Object],
folders: [Object],
snippets: [Object],
microcontent: [Object],
versionControl: false,
map: [Object],
_topicStatuses: undefined,
_conditionTagCategories: undefined,
links: [],
repository: undefined,
scripts: {},
panelShowHide: [Object],
trackChanges: false
}
}
]
[
{
file: '/mnt/crx/author/crx-quickstart/profiles/ditamaps/ditamap2473841374073312696/PDFProject/publish/presets/eBook.preset',
name: 'eBook',
type: 'epub',
index: 0
},
{
file: '/mnt/crx/author/crx-quickstart/profiles/ditamaps/ditamap2473841374073312696/PDFProject/publish/presets/Frameless.preset',
name: 'Frameless',
type: 'frameless',
index: 1
},
{
file: '/mnt/crx/author/crx-quickstart/profiles/ditamaps/ditamap2473841374073312696/PDFProject/publish/presets/Knowledge Base.preset',
name: 'Knowledge Base',
type: 'kb',
index: 2
},
{
file: '/mnt/crx/author/crx-quickstart/profiles/ditamaps/ditamap2473841374073312696/PDFProject/publish/presets/Microcontent.preset',
name: 'Microcontent',
type: 'caas',
index: 3
},
{
file: '/mnt/crx/author/crx-quickstart/profiles/ditamaps/ditamap2473841374073312696/PDFProject/publish/presets/PDF with Post-Generation Workflow.preset',
name: 'PDF with Post-Generation Workflow',
type: 'pdf',
index: 4
},
{
file: '/mnt/crx/author/crx-quickstart/profiles/ditamaps/ditamap2473841374073312696/PDFProject/publish/presets/PDF.preset',
name: 'PDF',
type: 'pdf',
index: 5
},
{
file: '/mnt/crx/author/crx-quickstart/profiles/ditamaps/ditamap2473841374073312696/PDFProject/publish/presets/Word Document.preset',
name: 'Word Document',
type: 'word',
index: 6
}
]
console.log Output generation starting....
{
PATH: '/usr/java/latest/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/crx/.local/bin:/home/crx/bin',
HISTCONTROL: 'ignoredups',
HISTSIZE: '1000',
JAVA_HOME: '/usr/java/jdk-11.0.5',
LANG: 'en_US.UTF-8',
XDG_SESSION_ID: 'c2',
MAIL: '/var/spool/mail/crx',
TMOUT: '600',
LD_LIBRARY_PATH: ':/usr/java/jdk-11.0.5/jre/lib/server:/usr/java/jdk-11.0.5/lib/server:/usr/java/jdk-11.0.5/lib/amd64/server:/usr/java/jdk-11.0.5/lib/i386/server',
LC_COLLATE: 'C',
LOGNAME: 'crx',
PWD: '/mnt/crx/author',
HISTTIMEFORMAT: '%F %T ',
_: '/bin/setsid',
LANGUAGE: 'en_US.UTF-8',
Path: ':/usr/java/jdk-11.0.5/jre/bin/server:/usr/java/jdk-11.0.5/bin/server:/usr/java/jdk-11.0.5/bin',
LESSOPEN: '||/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s',
SHELL: '/bin/bash',
OLDPWD: '/home/crx',
USER: 'crx',
HOSTNAME: 'mayo-test03-author1useast1',
LC_CTYPE: 'en_US.UTF-8',
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR: '/run/user/1005',
HOME: '/home/crx',
SHLVL: '1'
}
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'/mnt/crx/author/crx-quickstart/profiles/nodejs--b1aad0a7-9079-e56c-1ed8-6fcababe8166/node_modules/java/src-java',
pushDir: [Function (anonymous)]
]
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pushDir: [Function (anonymous)]
]
console.log Java found
generate.message [ 'Calculating topics list', '' ]
PROCESSING: title
PROCESSING: topicref
PROCESSING: topicref
PROCESSING: topicref
13:18:26.100
[Topic patching] Chunk 0 of size 2 with /mnt/crx/author/crx-quickstart/profiles/ditamaps/ditamap2473841374073312696/PDFProject/publish/templates/Basic/Common.plt -> 1687889906100

console.log Updating {topicRelPath}...
generate.message [ 'Patching topic', 'Common.plt' ]
console.log Updating {topicRelPath}...
generate.message [ 'Patching topic', 'TOC.plt' ]
2023-06-27T18:18:26.400Z Saving file /tmp/RHTMP/PDF with Post-Generation WorkflowsI2GaJ/publish/templates/Basic/Common.plt
2023-06-27T18:18:26.419Z Saving file /tmp/RHTMP/PDF with Post-Generation WorkflowsI2GaJ/publish/templates/Basic/TOC.plt
2023-06-27T18:18:26.425Z Write complete /tmp/RHTMP/PDF with Post-Generation WorkflowsI2GaJ/publish/templates/Basic/Common.plt
2023-06-27T18:18:26.425Z Write complete /tmp/RHTMP/PDF with Post-Generation WorkflowsI2GaJ/publish/templates/Basic/TOC.plt
generate.message [ 'Patching header and footer', '' ]
2023-06-27T18:18:26.479Z Saving file /tmp/RHTMP/PDF with Post-Generation WorkflowsI2GaJ/__hf_css_file.css
2023-06-27T18:18:26.480Z Write complete /tmp/RHTMP/PDF with Post-Generation WorkflowsI2GaJ/__hf_css_file.css
2023-06-27T18:18:26.494Z copy /mnt/crx/author/crx-quickstart/profiles/nodejs--b1aad0a7-9079-e56c-1ed8-6fcababe8166/build/static/frameless/css/topic.min.css /tmp/RHTMP/PDF with Post-Generation WorkflowsI2GaJ/_rhdefault.css
generate.message [ 'Copying asset files', '' ]
2023-06-27T18:18:26.497Z copy result /mnt/crx/author/crx-quickstart/profiles/nodejs--b1aad0a7-9079-e56c-1ed8-6fcababe8166/build/static/frameless/css/topic.min.css /tmp/RHTMP/PDF with Post-Generation WorkflowsI2GaJ/_rhdefault.css null
2023-06-27T18:18:26.498Z copy /mnt/crx/author/crx-quickstart/profiles/nodejs--b1aad0a7-9079-e56c-1ed8-6fcababe8166/build/static/pdf/toc.js /tmp/RHTMP/PDF with Post-Generation WorkflowsI2GaJ/toc.js
2023-06-27T18:18:26.498Z copy /mnt/crx/author/crx-quickstart/profiles/ditamaps/ditamap2473841374073312696/PDFProject/publish/templates/Basic/pdf.tpl /tmp/RHTMP/PDF with Post-Generation WorkflowsI2GaJ/publish/templates/Basic/pdf.tpl
2023-06-27T18:18:26.505Z Saving file /tmp/RHTMP/PDF with Post-Generation WorkflowsI2GaJ/publish/templates/Basic/layout.css
2023-06-27T18:18:26.519Z Saving file /tmp/RHTMP/PDF with Post-Generation WorkflowsI2GaJ/publish/templates/Basic/content.css
2023-06-27T18:18:26.564Z Saving file /tmp/RHTMP/PDF with Post-Generation WorkflowsI2GaJ/__defaultMerged.css
2023-06-27T18:18:26.566Z Write complete /tmp/RHTMP/PDF with Post-Generation WorkflowsI2GaJ/publish/templates/Basic/layout.css
2023-06-27T18:18:26.566Z Write complete /tmp/RHTMP/PDF with Post-Generation WorkflowsI2GaJ/publish/templates/Basic/content.css
2023-06-27T18:18:26.568Z Write complete /tmp/RHTMP/PDF with Post-Generation WorkflowsI2GaJ/__defaultMerged.css
2023-06-27T18:18:26.568Z copy result /mnt/crx/author/crx-quickstart/profiles/ditamaps/ditamap2473841374073312696/PDFProject/publish/templates/Basic/pdf.tpl /tmp/RHTMP/PDF with Post-Generation WorkflowsI2GaJ/publish/templates/Basic/pdf.tpl null
2023-06-27T18:18:26.570Z copy result /mnt/crx/author/crx-quickstart/profiles/nodejs--b1aad0a7-9079-e56c-1ed8-6fcababe8166/build/static/pdf/toc.js /tmp/RHTMP/PDF with Post-Generation WorkflowsI2GaJ/toc.js null
generate.message [ 'Indexing references', '' ]
2023-06-27T18:18:26.573Z Saving file /tmp/RHTMP/PDF with Post-Generation WorkflowsI2GaJ/mergedHTML.htm
2023-06-27T18:18:26.574Z Write complete /tmp/RHTMP/PDF with Post-Generation WorkflowsI2GaJ/mergedHTML.htm
generate.message [ 'Applying PDF settings', '' ]
generate.message [ 'Transforming into PDF pages...', '' ]
2023-06-27T18:18:39.638Z copy /tmp/RHTMP/PDF with Post-Generation WorkflowsI2GaJ/chart_review_qrg_PDF with Post-Generation Workflow.pdf /mnt/crx/author/crx-quickstart/profiles/ditamaps/ditamap2473841374073312696/build-chart_review_qrg/chart_review_qrg_PDF with Post-Generation Workflow.pdf
2023-06-27T18:18:39.640Z copy result /tmp/RHTMP/PDF with Post-Generation WorkflowsI2GaJ/chart_review_qrg_PDF with Post-Generation Workflow.pdf /mnt/crx/author/crx-quickstart/profiles/ditamaps/ditamap2473841374073312696/build-chart_review_qrg/chart_review_qrg_PDF with Post-Generation Workflow.pdf null
console.log Output generation successful.
console.log Compilation complete.
Done

Publish process completed in 72,302ms

[aimmta]

Error log (\crx-quickstart\logs) attached. Thanks!

[EstebanBustamante · Accepted solution]

The error log shows that the issue is related to this path:
"/content/dam/fmdita-outputs/pdfs/chart_review_qrg-ditamap/jcr:content" which does not exist:

Please review the logs for more details

[aimmta]

Thank you! That gave me enough to go on.

When I created a PDF output preset for chart_review_qrg.ditamap, AEM created a path in CRXDE named "/content/dam/fmdita-outputs/pdfs/chart_review_qrg-ditamap.pdf/jcr:content". However, the script to extract the metadata is trying to use the path "/content/dam/fmdita-outputs/pdfs/chart_review_qrg-ditamap/jcr:content". (The script in question is in the package downloaded from the Adobe web page mentioned in the original post.)

There is a mismatch between the two paths. Therefore, when the script attempts to set the target path in line 31, it is setting the target path to a non-existent node and then cannot write the metadata to the "/jcr:content/metadata" node.

I edited line #31 of the script sample-dita-metadata-extract.ecma to read as follows: var targetNode = session.getItem(generatedPath);. This eliminated the issue of the missing ".pdf" in the path name of the node.

The workflow was then able to complete successfully with no errors.