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Displaying the newly created component in the sidekick of Adobe CQ
By default, the sidekick doesn’t display the newly created components. You need to enable them explicitly in a CQ author instance. Create the component. Using SiteAdmin, open the page that you want to edit in the Author instance. From the sidekick, click the Design tab. In the Design of Paragraph tab that appears, click Edit.…
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Developing a Quiz component using Adobe CQ
In this blog entry, I will show you how to develop a CQ component. A CQ component, typically, has two parts. The first one is the CQ widget – the Graphical User Interface (GUI) in which an author adds content. Second one is a script; in this example, a JSP page that defines the logic that…
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Creating PDF output in Adobe CQ
When you author in Adobe CQ, you may need to create a pdf version of the page. PDF pages would be helpful for users if they need to read the content when they are not connected to Internet. Adobe CQ allows you to create the pdf version of the page using an OSGi bundle, PDF…
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Three mistakes I made while creating a website using Adobe CQ
While activating (publishing) pages in the new website, I didn’t activate the template, components, and style folders.And, I got a blank screen without any content. Content in the Live CQ pages checks for the corresponding JSP page to render the content. If these pages are not activated, the page won’t display anything. Activating a page…
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Flash Player 11.4 is available for download
The latest Flash Player version (11.4.402.265) is available. Please go to Adobe site to update Flash Player.
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Flash Player 11.3 issues on Mozilla Firefox
A new version of Flash Player plug-in is available today (June 21st). The latest version is 11.3.300.262. Go to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ to get the latest version. This version is for Mozilla Firefox and Safari. If you have any issues with Flash Player 11.3 on Mozilla Firefox, see Issues | Flash Player 11.3 | Mozilla Firefox. If…
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Fireworks CS6 What’s New
Here is the link: http://helpx.adobe.com/fireworks/using/whats-new-cs6.html Help & support page: http://helpx.adobe.com/fireworks.html Archive of old docs: http://helpx.adobe.com/fireworks/archive.html
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ExtendScript to print the word count in an FM book file
Find the script here. To test the script: Create a book file with many chapters. Chapters must be added as files. Open the book file. Ensure that chapters are not opened. Run the script. Wait for the script to open all the chapters and then print the word count. (Note that the script doesn’t include…
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Developing a document checklist using ExtendScript
I developed a script that can be used as a document checklist for a FrameMaker 10 book. You can add questions such as, “Have you updated variables?” Running the script captures the question and the answer to a .txt file. See the comments in the script to know more details. Download the script here.