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Do not remove child nodes by Manage Publication of Experience Fragment(XF)

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9/1/25

Request for Feature Enhancement (RFE) Summary: Fix ManagePublication behavior to preserve child nodes in ExperienceFragment instead of deleting them
Use-case:
  • Use "Manage Publication" on particular parent folder on XF Structure.
BEFORE ManagePublication (Publish Environment):
/content/experience-fragments/customer/
	└── en/
		├── company/
		│	├── company-overview-xf/
		│	│	└── master/
		│	├── about-us-xf/
		│	│	└── master/
		│	└── contact-info-xf/
		│		└── master/
		├── products/
		│	├── product-catalog-xf/
		│	│	└── master/
		│	├── product-detail-xf/
		│	│	└── master/
		│	└── product-comparison-xf/
		│		└── master/
		└── ir/
			├── financial-report-xf/
			│	└── master/
			├── investor-presentation-xf/
			│	└── master/
			└── earnings-release-xf/
				└── master/
 
AFTER ManagePublication of /content/experience-fragments/customer/en (Publish Environment - ISSUE):
/content/experience-fragments/customer/
	└── en/
		└── [EMPTY - All child folders and XF content deleted from Publish]



Current/Experienced Behavior:
  • When using ManagePublication on ExperienceFragment folder (/content/experience-fragments/customer/en), all child folders (company, products, ir) and their XF content are completely removed from Publish environment.
  • All English XF content disappears from live site
  • Impact : Broken user experience, missing localized content, language-specific content loss (Some Japan customers faced incident due to this functionality.)
Improved/Expected Behavior:
  • Prevent deletion of child nodes in ExperienceFragment - this is a bug, not a feature request
Environment Details (AEM version/service pack, any other specifics if applicable): AEM as a Cloud
Customer-name/Organization name: Manufacturing
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