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asaxesmartling · 10/15/15

I've been attempting to make the most basic of basic templates/pages in CQ 5.5. I have followed the instructions on: http://dev.day.com/docs/en/cq/5-5/howto/website.html

But unlike in the instructions on the site, the Sidekick is never displayed. There aren't any Javascript errors and everything in my setup looks the same as what is in the instruction guide.

Any ideas why the Sidekick would never show up? Am I missing something obvious?

Thank you.

smacdonald2008 · 10/15/15

Looks like you are missing this line of code:

<cq:include script="/libs/wcm/core/components/init/init.jsp"/>

displays the CQ sidekick in the page during design time.

Try this code:

<%@include file="/libs/foundation/global.jsp" %>

<cq:include script="/libs/wcm/core/components/init/init.jsp"/>

<html>

<head>

<title>Test</title>

</head>

<body>

<h2>This page displays the sidekick</h2>

<cq:include path="par" resourceType="foundation/components/parsys" />

</body>

</html>

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smacdonald2008 · 10/15/15

Have you tried different web browsers and clear the cache?

Can you paste the code to your template please - i want to make sure that you did not miss any thing in the template.

smacdonald2008 · 10/15/15

TO make component appear on the side -- first you click the design icon located at the bottom of the side kick:

[img]design.png[/img]

Then you will see the Edit button - click it and you will see the Edit Component box as shown here.

[img]sidekick.png[/img]

Click a category under Allow components and the component in the category will appear in the sidekcik.

asaxesmartling · 10/15/15

Hi - Thanks for the quick reply! The template is literally the simplest thing that I just copied from the instruction guide:

<%--

Content Page Component component.

This is the Content Page Component.

--%><%
%><%@include file="/libs/foundation/global.jsp"%><%
%><%@page session="false" %><%
%><%
// TODO add you code here
%>

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>My title</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>My body</div>
</body>
</html>

smacdonald2008 · 10/15/15

Looks like you are missing this line of code:

<cq:include script="/libs/wcm/core/components/init/init.jsp"/>

displays the CQ sidekick in the page during design time.

Try this code:

<%@include file="/libs/foundation/global.jsp" %>

<cq:include script="/libs/wcm/core/components/init/init.jsp"/>

<html>

<head>

<title>Test</title>

</head>

<body>

<h2>This page displays the sidekick</h2>

<cq:include path="par" resourceType="foundation/components/parsys" />

</body>

</html>

asaxesmartling · 10/15/15

Awesome. I very much appreciate the help. So - now the Sidekick shows up, but there are no components in it?

I apologize, should this be obvious to me? Maybe I'm just missing the basics of CQ.

smacdonald2008 · 10/15/15

Oh yeah -- click the down arrow on the side kick while in design mode to get out of Design mode:

[img]Design2.png[/img]

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