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Viswa_vsu · 10/6/25

I have went through this documentation of Adobe for hiding using metadata, but where to apply in AEM XWalk UE project. https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/implementing/dev...

SantoshSai · 10/6/25

In your XWalk repo, open head.html (root of the repo). That’s where UE config meta tags go. GitHub
To remove the Publish UI, add this line inside <head>:

<meta name="urn:adobe:aue:config:disable" content="publish"/>

(Optional: also hide “Publish to Preview”):

<meta name="urn:adobe:aue:config:disable" content="publish-preview"/>

These are the official keys UE reads.

About “Unpublish”: Adobe’s UE docs currently list disable flags for publish and publish-preview only; there’s no documented unpublish disable flag. The Unpublish action lives under the ellipsis menu.
If you must block Unpublish:
- Clean way (no UI hack): remove replicate permissions for those author groups/paths in AEM so they can’t publish/unpublish at all. (AEM permission-based.)
- UI way: build a tiny UE extension to filter actions from the toolbar/ellipsis (hide Unpublish for specific paths/roles).
Deploy, open the page in Universal Editor, refresh, and confirm the Publish button (and preview option) are gone.

How to hide or disable the unpublish button in AEM EDS universal Editor.