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Annotation not working on pages without layout container

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Hi Team,

 

Is there any restriction on aem page annotations, that it will work only when layout container is a wrapper container for the page?

I can only annotate on a page using aem OOTB annotation plugin, if the wrapper component on the page is ootb layout container.

Steps for annotate a page without layout container as wrapper component in it-

1. Create an aem page

2. Drag and drop any component, may be richtext

3. Try to annotate the page. - The add event for annotate won't get triggered. Unable to add annotation

 

Steps for annotate a page with layout container as wrapper component in it-

1. Create an aem page

2. Drag and drop General->layout container component onto the page

3. Drag and drop any component may be rich text component inside the layout container

4. Try to annotate the page. - Able to annotate successfully.

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Hi @manisha594391,

Steps mentioned under "without layout container on page" says "Drag and drop any component". Are you referring to custom container component or parsys component. 

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Hi @manisha594391,

I tried to reproduce this in my local (6.5.0) with parsys component 

  • Added at editable template level (under structure)
  • Included in HTL via data-sly-resource

and was able to annotate the components within in both ways.

Let us know your instance version and way parsys is added to debug further.

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@Nikhil-Kumar The link only mentions about how to use annotation. It does not talk about those details I am looking for

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Which version of AEM are you using, In my current AEM architecture which is on AEM as clous SDK parsys ideally comes inside Layout container. I guess better approach would be to go with the parsys inside layout-container and then annotate the component.

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Thanks for suggestions team !! I found the RCA.

The issue is occurring because of cq:placeholder class.

The components I was trying to drag and drop were having cq:placeholder class added to there rendering htmls. Henceforth the annotations does not work there.

This is a known issue. The annotations does not work with cq:placeholder. Refer the below community article for details

https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-experience-manager/cq-placeholder-issue-with-...