I didn't do any configuration specifically for inactive case when I did this exercise.   Please refer this blog post: https://medium.com/@debal.india2014/how-to-deal-with-oak-login-token-session-expiration-and-token-refresh-in-aem-51bcefaf2a96

I agree with @SivakumarKanoori  here, I have tested and noticed if I make any changes after the schedule time of publication, it will not publish them.   I have reviewed the versions while using Manage Publications feature and had similar experience as @SivakumarKanoori has explained.  

Understood. Do one thing please ask your infra team or platform team to share IP address and port number of https://assets.ourcompanynamehere.com/.   In my project also infra team has details about IP and port number and we developer access AEM instance with url like https://assets.ourcompanynameher...

You can refer this https://medium.com/@debal.india2014/aem-clientlib-minification-issue-and-how-to-debug-f3420542f9ea , hope this will help you to debug and fix the issue.

Option 1: Select the specific asset and click on References tab, then you will be seeing all the pages in which that image is used.   Option 2: If you want to do it programmatically then you can refer http://wemcode.wemblog.com/get_asset_reference_in_page [Other way around section]   Hope these will...

Are you referring to the local AEM instance or environment specific like Test, Pre-production , Production AEM instance?

Could you please explain your complete requirement from workflow perspective here?   Why do you want to dialog participant step in terms of additional information as you have mentioned?

My local AEM instance is running on port 7070 as shown below - Now to get this AEM instance connected with AEM desktop app I have entered http://localhost:7070 as shown below -   Next, I have got login screen -   Entered username: admin, password: admin and after successful authentication, I am a...

Are you seeing any error in browser console while using your application specific page?   Please create a new page with your application specific template and don't add any other component on that page. Then add your form container component and check whether it allows you to add any component.

I would suggest you follow the we.retail form container component and here is the component's path: /apps/weretail/components/form/container.   If you take a look at /apps/weretail/components/form/container/new and follow the similar approach, then you will be to add components within Form container...