Can you please confirm where the authoring of your component(footer links) is happening?. The the component(with design_dialog) to show up in all pages of a given template, the authoring should happen in Design mode(not in page level).  So, in your case, I hope you have accessed the page 1, switched...

I guess it is the default behavior of sling. Meaning, when we do not have a script or sling:resourceTtype associated with a node, this page is displayed also this happens when we have an invalid sling:resourceType. They are like the bad nodes or pages which can be cleaned up. But in this case you ar...

I would advice not to debug issues of this nature in PROD environment as it may pose severe performance issues or may be an outage. So, please validate if you could reproduce the issue on a lower environment (QA, Dev servers) before you try in PROD.Regarding the solution for the issues you have aske...

Are you seeing this behavior when you are injecting the request object? was it all working otherwise?  one of the prerequisites is to make these changes(add dependencies) to your pom.xml and also add the plugin element.org.apache.felix.scrorg.apache.felix.scr.annotationsorg.apache.sling.models.apipl...

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: nullat org.apache.jsp.apps.amica.components.content.left_002dnav.left_002dnav_jsp._jspService(le ft_002dnav_jsp.java:191)Snippet of the stack trace clearly indicates that it is a null pointer that is originating from the component script because of which yo...

You will always be able to get the handle of SlingHttpServletRequest object in your model(sling models) by injecting it. Here is the code below.@InjectSlingHttpServletRequest request;And once you have the request object, it should be straight forward to get the WCMMode. WCMMode mode = WCMMode.fromRe...

Can you be more specific or elaborative please. Without much details, it may not be easy to point out where the issue is. If possible provide some screen shots which may allow us to comment/suggest on the solution.

ResourceResolverFactory is like any other service that is available in OSGI framework. It's most frequent use is accessing resource resolver. You can see its detailed use in  your felix console, /system/console/configMgr. Search for "Apache Sling Resource Resolver Factory".Now, coming to your second...

thank you very much. installed it locally and works like a charm.

I think i figured out something (probably there could be more to it). Basically, it is a new way to keep the permissions within the context of the page which i feel is nicer way to handle instead of the traditional classic UI user admin console where it often leads to confusion.A simple use case to ...