Workflow Email Notification pointing to wrong url

Have you followed all instructions in this AEM 6.4 doc?

Configuring Email Notification

Yes and everything else like "from address" , custom email notification where we are getting host url from externalizer and adding to email body is working fine.  Its only problem with OOB workflow notification (so far we know in 6.4)

I see in OOB email template , host.prefix is used and its not honoring externalizer run modes value we have set it up

Do you happen to have a fresh AEM DEV instance to try. I suspect this could be an upgrade bug. Can you test on Fresh instance to rule out that nothing is mis-configured.

Another thing i just tried was adding explicit value for host.prefix property (value =author url of dev instance) in Link Externalizer OSGI config and I can see now localhost is replaced with DEV author URL in email notification but It is adding extra http to Dev https url

the URL now i get in email is like this  http://https//aem-author-dev.xxxxxxxx/xxxxx

The reason why i did not have this value set up was because it says it is Deprecated Property.

Does not looks like upgrade issue.

Edit 1: its externalizer.host property value not host.prefix that I updated under Link Externalizer OSGI config

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Edit 2: If i remove web protocol and just add server address in externalizer.host , it worked but it has http instead of https in email notification content body. So instead of having https://author.xyz.com in externalizer.host property value , If I just add author.xyz.com, its working

My question are

1. why do we need to populate externalizer.host in Link Externalizer which is deprecated

2. why its adding http instead of https which is not acceptable for us on upper environments

Also - here is the 6.4 docs for Externalizing URLs - https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/6-4/sites/developing/using/externalizer.html

I am checking internally to see if this is a known issue,

Thanks for checking internally. Meantime I will again go through this docs to confirm we are doing everything needed for 6.4

Also - i want to make sure there is not missing information to the AEM 6.4 docs.

Externalizing URLs

A team member replied:

I have used the Externalizer before. I'm a little confused by the question but they should use the externalizer.domains part of the config. As the user mentions the other configs are deprecated

In the code use the authorLink method

 // link to author

 externalizer.authorLink(resolver, "/my/page") + ".html";

 // => "http://author.website.com/contextpath/my/page.html"

https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/6-4/sites/developing/using/reference-materials/javadoc/com/day/cq/commons/Externalizer.html#authorLink-org.apache.sling.api.resource.ResourceResolver-java.lang.String-

I have not had an issue with an extra https being appended...

Yes we are using same approach using externalizer.domains to different mode , you can see that screenshot in thread main question.

I dont have any issue using it with our custom notification where I am following exactly same as you mention and it work without any issue.

The issue is only with OOB Workflow Email Notifications which are non customized and I have no idea why they are not having correct URL without populated deprecated externalizer.host property value which if populated like i said above is casing extra http or https issue.

I am testing this and will make use of this API within a workflow step. This use case and question raised my attention that we do not have a good Quick Start HELPX article that shows use of this API.