AEM Publisher do not have the User Sync Process like AEM author instance has. This is AEM behaviour. This means that user and group data is not synchronized from the Identity Provider (IdP) to the publish instances. This is part of Security reasons . User data is sensitive and should be secured. As...

please check these details once :   In Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service (AEMaaCS), full-text indexing of binary files like PDFs is supported out of the box. This is done using Apache Tika, which is capable of extracting text from various file formats including PDF. https://experienceleagu...

Please check this reference : https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-experience-manager/multifield-in-content-fragment/td-p/604741  

how about manually  append ?wcmmode=disabled at the end of the URL ?

SAML we generally use for Single Sign On (SSO) solution. In AEM - SAML can be used for both Author and Publish instances (Login and access) but SAML for end user - not recommended. For end user - you can use Registration Process (registered users) - create login id and password to register users and...

javax.xml.transform - importing this explicitly looks good. javax.xml.transform Is this package required to Export explicitly with bundle?

https://github.com/adobe/htl-spec/blob/master/SPECIFICATION.md#226-list   <div data-sly-list="${myModel.dummyObj @ begin = 0, end = 1}">                 <a href="${item.pageURL}">${item.pageTitle}</a> </div> this should print one first item only as per above begin is included and end is exclude.

some references - please check it   https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-experience-manager/aem-6-5-richtext-inside-multifield-not-retaining-the-authored/m-p/361995   https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-experience-manager/rich-text-not-working-in-nested-multifiel...

when you are creating language copy in step #2 - how the AEM is handling it? i.e AEM  update the paths of the XF ? can you check the workflow or service you are using?

can you compare access permissions in your local vs cs author for dam-users group. 403 is related with permission only . uploaduser is created as a Service User or regular user? It is better to create as a Service User in AEM as a Cloud Service. or you can try by giving full access permission manual...