I guess, I simply have to find a way to work around this. Thanks for the clarification.

I have AppMeasurement 2.17.0 and it sometimes sends beacons as (1) AJAX POST request and sometimes it dynamically (2) adds <script> to the page (with the same URL as AJAX request) and that results in a GET request.   In case of 1 the data is encapsulated in the request body, and in case of 2 the dat...

In that case you have to use Dynamic Templates that were introduced in AEM 6.2. Have a look here -> Creating Page Templates

As you said, cq:template node of the component has the desired effect only in case author adds the component to page - true. For the first use case, however, you have to include the respective nodes in the template of your page, e.g.,:<jcr:root jcr:primarytype="cq:Template" ...>     <jcr:content jcr...

If you want your component to have some nodes created automatically you have to make use of cq:template. You create it beside cq:dialog. If you want to have node called image_node created automatically, your cq:template would look something like this:<jcr:root jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured" ...> ...