activate later functionality

[ritesh_amarnat1]

Hi 

If i schedule a page for later activation using Avtivate later funcitonality.

An error is appearing "could not schedule page for activation"

can you please suggest me with a solution

i am using 5.5 version 

and briefly our website has 4 environment of AEM
1. development
2. test
3. Quality assurance
4. production 

the activate later functionality is working fine in dev and test but its not working fine in QA and production
that is the problem can you suggest me some solution

thanks in advance

[Sham_HC · Accepted solution]

In QA & Prod Please make sure user have access atleast for [1]. This is because the activate/deactivate later are using workflow to execute the action at given time. Let me know if that works for you.    If access is already provided please send log stacktrace during the time frame user trying to activate later.

[1] /etc/workflow/instances to be read, modify, create (read acl)

[smacdonald2008]

Have you followed all the instructions in this AEM topic:

http://dev.day.com/docs/en/cq/current/wcm/page_publish.html

[Doug_Nichols]

Did you ever figure out this issue?  We're having a similar problem in that some users simply get an error message when trying to "activate later".  I assumed it was permission related, so tried the r,w,c, read acl permission setting mentioned above, but to no avail.

The stacktrace we get is as follows:

17.10.2013 14:33:58.513 *ERROR* [10.0.104.75 [1382045638475] POST /etc/workflow/instances HTTP/1.1] org.apache.sling.engine.impl.SlingRequestProcessorImpl service: Uncaught Throwable java.lang.NullPointerException at com.day.cq.workflow.impl.CQWorkflowSession.startWorkflow(CQWorkflowSession.java:796) at com.day.cq.workflow.servlet.InstancesServlet.doPost(InstancesServlet.java:94) at org.apache.sling.api.servlets.SlingAllMethodsServlet.mayService(SlingAllMethodsServlet.java:148) at org.apache.sling.api.servlets.SlingSafeMethodsServlet.service(SlingSafeMethodsServlet.java:344) at org.apache.sling.api.servlets.SlingSafeMethodsServlet.service(SlingSafeMethodsServlet.java:375) at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.request.RequestData.service(RequestData.java:500) at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.filter.SlingComponentFilterChain.render(SlingComponentFilterChain.java:45) at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.filter.AbstractSlingFilterChain.doFilter(AbstractSlingFilterChain.java:64) at com.day.cq.wcm.core.impl.WCMDebugFilter.doFilter(WCMDebugFilter.java:147) at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.filter.AbstractSlingFilterChain.doFilter(AbstractSlingFilterChain.java:60) at com.day.cq.wcm.core.impl.WCMComponentFilter.filterRootInclude(WCMComponentFilter.java:308) at com.day.cq.wcm.core.impl.WCMComponentFilter.doFilter(WCMComponentFilter.java:141) at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.filter.AbstractSlingFilterChain.doFilter(AbstractSlingFilterChain.java:60) at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.SlingRequestProcessorImpl.processComponent(SlingRequestProcessorImpl.java:257) at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.filter.RequestSlingFilterChain.render(RequestSlingFilterChain.java:49) at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.filter.AbstractSlingFilterChain.doFilter(AbstractSlingFilterChain.java:64) at com.day.cq.wcm.core.impl.warp.TimeWarpFilter.doFilter(TimeWarpFilter.java:106) at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.filter.AbstractSlingFilterChain.doFilter(AbstractSlingFilterChain.java:60) at com.day.cq.wcm.mobile.core.impl.redirect.RedirectFilter.doFilter(RedirectFilter.java:305) at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.filter.AbstractSlingFilterChain.doFilter(AbstractSlingFilterChain.java:60) at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.debug.RequestProgressTrackerLogFilter.doFilter(RequestProgressTrackerLogFilter.java:59) at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.filter.AbstractSlingFilterChain.doFilter(AbstractSlingFilterChain.java:60) at com.day.cq.wcm.foundation.forms.impl.FormsHandlingServlet.doFilter(FormsHandlingServlet.java:220) at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.filter.AbstractSlingFilterChain.doFilter(AbstractSlingFilterChain.java:60) at com.day.cq.theme.impl.ThemeResolverFilter.doFilter(ThemeResolverFilter.java:76) at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.filter.AbstractSlingFilterChain.doFilter(AbstractSlingFilterChain.java:60) at com.day.cq.wcm.core.impl.WCMRequestFilter.doFilter(WCMRequestFilter.java:89) at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.filter.AbstractSlingFilterChain.doFilter(AbstractSlingFilterChain.java:60) at org.apache.sling.rewriter.impl.RewriterFilter.doFilter(RewriterFilter.java:83) at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.filter.AbstractSlingFilterChain.doFilter(AbstractSlingFilterChain.java:60) at org.apache.sling.i18n.impl.I18NFilter.doFilter(I18NFilter.java:117) at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.filter.AbstractSlingFilterChain.doFilter(AbstractSlingFilterChain.java:60) at org.apache.sling.bgservlets.impl.BackgroundServletStarterFilter.doFilter(BackgroundServletStarterFilter.java:135) at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.filter.AbstractSlingFilterChain.doFilter(AbstractSlingFilterChain.java:60) at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.SlingRequestProcessorImpl.processRequest(SlingRequestProcessorImpl.java:153) at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.SlingMainServlet.service(SlingMainServlet.java:206) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.handler.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:96) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.handler.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:79) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.ServletPipeline.handle(ServletPipeline.java:42) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.InvocationFilterChain.doFilter(InvocationFilterChain.java:49) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.HttpFilterChain.doFilter(HttpFilterChain.java:33) at org.apache.sling.i18n.impl.I18NFilter.doFilter(I18NFilter.java:117) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.handler.FilterHandler.doHandle(FilterHandler.java:88) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.handler.FilterHandler.handle(FilterHandler.java:76) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.InvocationFilterChain.doFilter(InvocationFilterChain.java:47) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.HttpFilterChain.doFilter(HttpFilterChain.java:33) at org.apache.sling.security.impl.ReferrerFilter.doFilter(ReferrerFilter.java:238) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.handler.FilterHandler.doHandle(FilterHandler.java:88) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.handler.FilterHandler.handle(FilterHandler.java:76) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.InvocationFilterChain.doFilter(InvocationFilterChain.java:47) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.HttpFilterChain.doFilter(HttpFilterChain.java:33) at com.adobe.granite.license.impl.LicenseCheckFilter.doFilter(LicenseCheckFilter.java:179) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.handler.FilterHandler.doHandle(FilterHandler.java:88) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.handler.FilterHandler.handle(FilterHandler.java:76) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.InvocationFilterChain.doFilter(InvocationFilterChain.java:47) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.HttpFilterChain.doFilter(HttpFilterChain.java:33) at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.log.RequestLoggerFilter.doFilter(RequestLoggerFilter.java:75) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.handler.FilterHandler.doHandle(FilterHandler.java:88) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.handler.FilterHandler.handle(FilterHandler.java:76) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.InvocationFilterChain.doFilter(InvocationFilterChain.java:47) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.HttpFilterChain.doFilter(HttpFilterChain.java:33) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.FilterPipeline.dispatch(FilterPipeline.java:48) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.Dispatcher.dispatch(Dispatcher.java:39) at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.DispatcherServlet.service(DispatcherServlet.java:67) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820) at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.ServletRuntimeEnvironment.service(ServletRuntimeEnvironment.java:250) at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.RequestDispatcherImpl.doFilter(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:321) at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.RequestDispatcherImpl.service(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:340) at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.RequestDispatcherImpl.service(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:383) at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.ServletHandlerImpl.process(ServletHandlerImpl.java:351) at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.HttpListener$Worker.run(HttpListener.java:625) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

[smacdonald2008]

This sounds like a bug. Please open a ticket: http://helpx.adobe.com/marketing-cloud/experience-manager.html