Use designs for your template. It would help Designs and the Designer

Yes. External Users would not be able to access your AEM system as their permission i assume would be configured that way.

Check if you have added right dependency for Oracle/RDBMS Drivers  and its running the bundle?

I believe not assuming you dont have ADFS is also configured for Authentication for internal users.

ADFS can be configured as Identity provider in existing SAML Server. Once that is done. User logged in through ADFs should be log in seamlessly.

nikrohit78​What you can do isSet up a Local SSO Server which uses your ADFS as Authentication provider. Once User logs in using your SSO he/she should be able to logg in seamlessly.

Why you need to do it programatically?? It will put extra load on server. Rather user Apache Mod Rewrite to shorten URLs. How to configure link rewriting

The OSGI config is picked in this order:1. From OSGI Config Setting2. Config settings given from  /apps/<project-folder>/config.author.dev/com.adobe.granite.auth.saml.SamlAuthenticationHa ndler-myproject.xml3. <cq-installation-dir>/crx-quickstart/launchpad/config/My Guess is you have some default co...

I guess that while saving your node the order of saving is wrong. Please look into that.

I believe there is nothing called native inside the sling model or AEM. You may need to create a custom logic for it. If I were you I would  have:1. Created an OSGI Service which would have a injected a sling model (of your path)2. A method that could get the node from that path using sling model3. ...