Adding newly created component in sidekick / siderail

Creating a component is not enough if it cannot be used on the pages. In order to display the component on the page we have the following two ways :

1.             Directly include the component on page rendering jsp/sightly as shown below

     <cq:include path="comp1" resourceType="mySite/components/myComp" />

    2. Enable the component in sidekick and then drag it to the parsys to use it.

        Only those component which has either cq:inplaceEditing node or  cq:dialog node can be enabled to appear in the sidekick, because a component is logically not needed if the author doesn't input any content to it.

    Now the component is available but still, we need to enable it to see in sidekick:

1.             1. Go to the design view of the page ( available only in Classic UI ).

2.             2. Go to 'Edit' of parsys on which you want to drag-drop your component.

3.             3. A list of available components will show up, you can check your component to show up in sidekick.

4.             4. Exit the pop-up and you will see the checked component showing up in sidekick.