You can write a custom workflow step which will get the comments as in the code sample given in the forum thread I shared earlier. And then save the read comment on the payload as custom property. In the workflow model just include this step before any participant step in which you want to send emai...

You will have to write custom code to read comments. Check this link - https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1156064

Keep in mind that if you schedule it on weekly basis then it will take longer time to run and complete. You can tune the Tar PM optimization process by passing the delay parameter which will ensure that it does not continuously consume CPU and I/O resources and thereby blocking the other operations....

Why you don't want it to run on daily basis ? If you don't run it on daily basis then your TAR files will continue to grow quickly and eat up your disk space. But if you still want to change the schedule then you can achieve it by disabling the auto scheduled optimization in the workspace.xml file a...

Why do you want to use cookie and not the browser storage to persist client context data ? 

I need help in understanding the asset share and editor pages as mentioned here in this link https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-1/administer/content/assets/assets-finder-editor.html. We have requirements that the users of the central application can also upload/edit/remove assets along with viewin...

It is always a good practice to use resourceType for invoking servlets rather than creating custom servlet URLs. Check out this article - https://cqdump.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/aem-coding-best-practice-servlets/

If you have to use event handler approach then one possible solution could be to create a special user for building and installing packages. This user should only be used only for installing packages and nothing else. And then in your event handler code you can check the value of for "jcr:createdBy"...

Not sure why your instance is not starting. The only exception I see is that it can not find "sling:jobEvent" node type definition in the repository. Did you see any errors while you upgraded in the upgrade.log file ? You can try registering the node type manually by importing the contents of the cn...

It seems that some of your OSGI bundles are not getting Active and thats why you see the startup in progress message.  Do you know which bundle is having the problems ?  You can disable the startup filter to just to go past this message and check any exceptions when you access any UIs.  Uncheck "Act...