Yes. Your templates should be immediately under /wcm/templates. The subdirectory sites is causing your issue. Move your templates one directory up and you will see them appearing in the Granite UI's Toolbox.

You could add the runOnceMethod() in a service's activate() method. That will run once as soon as its gets activated.  Interface public interface MyService { void runOnceMethod(); }  Implementation ( service = MyService.class, configurationPolicy = ConfigurationPolicy.OPTIONAL, ...

The documenation's instructions for custom live actions do not work. I created a case at Adobe for this. 

I tried Adobe documentation at https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-65/developing/extending-aem/extending-msm.html?lang=en but the instructions doe not work for me. I created a case (E-001003099) at Adobe to follow up on their proposed implementation.  However, I was able to co...

I would try to implement the LiveActionFactory rather than create a new one based on BaseActionFactory.  As for all AEM Unit tests for Services, start by adding a mock context, mock your class' dependencies and inject those mocks into a mock object of your class. Then create a general setup method f...

This is a very good alternative!

For a client, we would need to customize the standard rollout.  Currently, when a blueprint is rolled out, all subpages are rolled out as well.  Expected behavior is that when a blueprint "somePage" is rolled out, we can rollout subpage "someSubPage" only if it contains Tag "someTag". Could we achie...

Request for Feature Enhancement (RFE) Summary:An alias ("/login", "/i18n") that redirects an Author to a libs/cq/someTool.html page.Use-case: An Author needs to use i18n. Or an Author needs to login to AEM. Current/Experienced Behavior:Author needs to visit www.author.project.com/libs/cq/i18n/transl...

Preview mode will allow a client to see what will be displayed on a Publish instance.  Depending on how the HTLs were written, there might be differences between what is displayed on Author Instance's edit mode and Publish Instance's publish mode.    Changing the mode will refresh the page, it shoul...

AEM supports the use of both Sling APIs and JCR APIs.  Docs on best practiceshttps://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-learn/foundation/development/understand-java-api-best-practices.html?lang=enDocs on Sling APIhttps://sling.apache.org/old-stuff/sling-api.html Docs on JCR APIhttps:...