Live copy page properties container jcr: are NOT getting synchronized from master during rollout

Question

I found an issue in my project. The page properties prefixed as jcr: and not getting rolled out.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open a vanilla AEM 6.3 instance. Open page properties for page /content/we-retail/language-masters/en/men
2. Change values for properties Page Title, Description. Save & Close

3. Goto Blueprint Control center for We.Retail English Language Master. viz http://localhost:4512/etc/blueprints.html?rootPath=/content/we-retail/language-masters/en
   4. Rollout the Men page. Then Open the page properties of live copy page /content/we-retail/ca/en/men and check the page properties

Expected: Both Page Title and Description should be rolled out

Actual: Page Title gets rolled out, but Description fails to roll out.

My expectation was all page properties should get rolled out. What am I missing or do wrong?

Answer 1

Go to configuration manager in OSGI, http://localhost:4502/system/console/configMgr and search for CQ MSM Content Update Action configuration.

In this under excluded page properties, jcr:.* is excluded so, the jcr properties are not inherited from parent page. To inherit the parent page description property, replace jcr:.* to jcr:(?!(description)$).. This will inherit the page property description to child pages as well. Need to configure similarly for other page properties as well.

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Answer 2

Inspecting the OSGI configuration of RolloutManagerImpl at /system/console/configMgr/com.day.cq.wcm.msm.impl.RolloutManagerImpl, you'll see that by default jcr:.*, sling:.* and cq:.* are excluded page properties. I guess the description is stored under jcr:description and thus does not get rolled out.