Thanks. I am trying to understand why it behaves the way it does. And a programmatic fix rather than having to ask Template Authors to go through the work of putting content in, just to remove the component they just added to the template.

Perhaps I have to elaborate on the issue. Here is how to reproduce:1. Lets say we have two components - Component A and Component B.2. Component A has simple HTL, sayThis is Component A3. Component B has following HTLThis is Component B4. As "Template Author", edit a blank template and add Component A and Component B to the template in "Structure" mode.5. As "Template Author", try to delete Component A and Component B from the Template.Result:1. As Template Author, you will see "Delete" option f...

Figured it out. The solution was quite obvious (and silly). Agents (specially the ones used for flushing activity) on publish need "On Receive" checked on the Trigger tab of the agent configuration. And it also needs "Ignore Default" checked. Looking back, it makes complete sense.

We are using AEM 6.4 . Are there changes in replication agent component / api that results in this behavior only on Publish ? Thanks.

Thanks. I did review the other thread. That issue was result of space in the agent name (and on Author instance).In our case, I can confirm that there are no spaces in the agent name (akamai).Following scenario with works . on Author instance:1. New agent created with name "akamai"2. Content published3. QueueTopic gets created (from OSGI Jobs screen)4. Custom Transport Handler for the custom agent gets calledFollowing scenario does not work on Publish instance:1. New agent created with name "aka...