Dialogs & Design Dialogs are the group of widgets employed to obtain input from the author. These are the most important parts of a component since they allow the author to communicate with the CQ5 component. It indicates that values entered by the author in these dialogs are used as input for a CQ5 component.
| Criteria |
Dialog |
Design Dialog |
| Definition |
Dialog modifies the content at the page level. |
Design dialog modifies the content at the template level. |
| Availability |
authored in edit mode |
authored in design mode |
| Value Storage |
stored under the pages jcr:content node |
stored under the design page located under /etc/design |
| Accessing Values in CQ5 JSPs |
through properties object |
through currentStyle object. |
