Paste and adding components

[Susana_Cardenas]

Hello everyone,

Whenever I deploy a new version of AEM, the paste function disappears and we can't add components, either via the + button or from the side panel. We opened a ticket and found out that this was due to an issue with the policies. However, when the next release was deployed, we lost those functions again, so now we need to reconfigure the policies every time. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?

[SantoshSai]

Hi @Susana_Cardenas,

I think this issue often relates to either overwritten policies or improper filter.xml configurations during deployment.

When deploying new content packages (especially editable templates and policies), the filter.xml configuration plays a critical role in determining what gets overwritten, merged, or deleted in the JCR repository.

If your deployment package includes template or policy paths without care, you may be overwriting or deleting existing policies, leading to:

• Missing cq:policy nodes
  
  

Make sure your filter.xml has proper mode or excludes cq:policy paths if you don't intend to overwrite them.

Bad example (might overwrite policies):

Be more specific with includes:

<filter root="/conf/your-site/settings/wcm">
  <include pattern="/conf/your-site/settings/wcm/templates(/.*)?"/>
  <!-- Do not include policies if you don't want to overwrite -->
</filter>

Include your policy definitions under in your codebase, typically under ui.content or a dedicated content package, and deploy them along with your templates and editable components - instead reconfiguring manually after each build.