Can't access the design mode of a page

[ryan_lee]

I'm currently using Adobe CQ 5.5 and am in Author mode of a page that on our website, is password protected. When I toggle to Design mode, it immediately refreshes to the login page of our website. I'm trying to define which components are available for a parsys, and don;t know any other way to change these settings. Typically, switching to Design mode and then editing the parsys in the Sidekick is the method that works, but I'm not able to get that far. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.

[smacdonald2008]

Similiar issue - see this article for possible fixes:

http://blogs.adobe.com/dmcmahon/2012/03/09/cq-design-and-preview-mode-toolbar-not-visible/

When this happens - it may be a cache/permission issue.

[ryan_lee]

Thanks for the link... This seems to be a different problem. While in Edit mode, I can see the Design mode button in the sidekick, but as soon as I click it, I am refreshed to the login page of our site, which loads in Design mode. It seems that CQ knows the page is password protected (perhaps this is set on the template that this page uses, which was built for within our member portal), and apparently the Design mode of the page is similar to the Preview mode, in that it needs to be authenticated to load... So, I don't seem to have any way of defining which components can be added to a parsys, since that needs to happen in Design mode. I've tried logging into the site as a user while in Edit mode of the page, but the page just hangs trying to log in.

[Lokesh_Shivalingaiah · Accepted solution]

If you are looking at configuring the components for a parsys without design mode, you can do that in the crxde under each template by adding components[] property.

Refer this

http://localhost:4502/crx/de/index.jsp#/etc/designs/geometrixx/jcr%3Acontent/contentpage/par

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23275062/restrict-the-components-in-aem-5-6-1