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sarav_prakash
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
April 4, 2018

AEM 6.3 - How to read design properties within component helper for a dynamic editable template

  • April 4, 2018
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I have a dynamic editable template with design dialog at page component. The design properties are persisted under /conf/myapp/settings/wcm/policies/myapp like this:

My requirement is to read these page level design properties and use them inside an Image component. I have design dialog at component level as well. So when I do ${currentStyle.property}, it renders the component level design property.

Next I wrote a helper class like this:

Designer designer = currentPage.getContentResource().getResourceResolver().adaptTo(Designer.class);
  Design pageDesign = designer.getDesign(currentPage);
  Style pageStyle = pageDesign.getStyle(pageDesign.getPath());
  return pageStyle.get(PROPERTY_ANALYTICSPAGETYPE, String.class);

This code is trying to read page level design properties under /etc/designs/myapp authored under cq:designPath and NOT reading under /conf policies. Now how I read the /conf policy nodes and access those properties?

How to access page level design properties within a component?

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2 replies

smacdonald2008
Level 10
April 4, 2018

When Sling APIs do not work - you can always try reading the node props using the JCR API.

I am not aware of any examples that show how to read editable template node props using the Designer API.

sarav_prakash
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
April 6, 2018

Hi Sam,

I didnt want to access at JCR level. When policy changes, or new policies are added, I ll end up writing logic to search for right node. Was wondering if there is an API way of accessing these policies.

smacdonald2008
Level 10
April 6, 2018

There is not an API that lets you specifically read editable template policies.

sarav_prakash
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
June 11, 2018

This question is closed. I got the answer from sof