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Customizing Views of Page Properties customizing-views-of-page-properties

Last update: Wed Nov 05 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
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  • Experience Manager as a Cloud Service

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Every page has a set of properties that can be viewed and edited by users. Some are required when creating the page (create view), others can be viewed and edited (edit view) at a later stage. These page properties are defined and made available by the dialog (cq:dialog) of the appropriate page component.

The default state for every page property is:

  • Hidden in the create view (for example, Create Page wizard)

  • Available in the edit view (for example, View Properties)

Fields must be specifically configured if any change is required. This is done using the appropriate node properties:

  • Page property to be available in the create view (for example, Create Page wizard):

    • Name: cq:showOnCreate
    • Type: Boolean

  • Page property to be available in the edit view such as the View/Edit Properties option:

    • Name: cq:hideOnEdit
    • Type: Boolean
TIP
See the Extending Page Properties tutorial for a guide to customizing page properties.

Configuring Your Page Properties configuring-your-page-properties

You can also configure the fields available by configuring the dialog of your page component and applying the appropriate node properties.

For example, by default the Create Page wizard shows the fields grouped under More Titles and Description. To hide these you configure:

  1. Create your page component under /apps.

  2. Create an override (using dialog diff provided by the Sling Resource Merger) for the basic section of your page component; for example:

    code language-xml 
    <your-page-component>/cq:dialog/content/items/tabs/items/basic

  3. Set the path property on basic to point to the override of the basic tab (see the next step as well). For example:

    code language-xml 
    /apps/demos/components/page/tabs/basic

  4. Create an override of the basic - moretitles section at the corresponding path; for example:

    code language-xml 
    /apps/demos/components/page/tabs/basic/items/column/items/moretitles

  5. Apply the appropriate node property:

    • Name: cq:showOnCreate
    • Type: Boolean
    • Value: false

    The More Titles and Description section will no longer be shown in the Create Page wizard.

NOTE
When configuring page properties for use with live copies, see Extending the Multi Site Manager for more details.

Sample Configuration of Page Properties sample-configuration-of-page-properties

This sample demonstrates the dialog diff technique of the Sling Resource Merger including use of sling:orderBefore. It also illustrates use of both cq:showOnCreate and cq:hideOnEdit.

You can find the code of this page on GitHub.

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