Manage Publication button breaks cac publishing flow

[satzlinger]

Steps to reproduce:
I start off with no sling context aware configuration

Create sling context aware configuration.
Save
Use quick Publishing.
Publish dialog appears with my caconfiguration selected

Publish
Configuration is properly replicated to the publishing instance.
Values can be changed, saved and quick published and it consistently works

Change value of a sling context aware configuration

Save
use Manage Publication

Configuration content is not properly replicated to the publish instance.
The properties cq:lastReplicated and cq:lastReplicated_publish have the timestamp when the manage publication button was pressed on author but the cq:lastReplicated_publish on publisher is not changed and shows the timestamp from the quick publish process before.
Quick publish button now does not show the Publish dialog where the node can be seen, but just shows the "Configuration Editor The page has been published, Close" Dialog. No publishing was done.

Locally I was only able to get the quick publishing button working again by deleting the configuration node and creating a new one.
I can not see anything suspicious in the author, publish or replication log

Would be great if someone can look into this

[stefanseifert]

thanks for the detailed report! - i will try to reproduce the issue.

from time to time it may break if something changes inside the AEMaaCS product under the hood.

[stefanseifert]

i was not able to reproduce the problem. i'm using AEMaaCS 2024.11.18598.20241113T125352Z-241100 and tested with latest versions of caconfig editor and caconfig extensions. i testes both locally with AEMaaCS SDK and with aen AEMaaCS cloud RDE, it worked.

here is a detailed list of steps i used to reproduce the problem:

1. Deploy application https://github.com/wcm-io/io.wcm.caconfig.sample-app to local AEM author+publish instance
2. Remove folder /conf/contextaware-config-sample/sample from both author+publish instances to have a clean start without any configs
3. Open editor: http://localhost:4502/content/contextaware-config-sample/en/config.html
4. Add new configuration "Sample Configuration" with String = config1, Integer = 111, Save
5. Hit "Quick Publish" and confirm to publish the single config page
6. Validate that entered config exists on author http://localhost:4502/content/contextaware-config-sample/en.html and publish http://localhost:4503/content/contextaware-config-sample/en.html - "111" is displayed
7. In the editor, edit same configuration again and replace "111" with "222", Save
8. This time, use "Manage Publication", hit "Next", activate checkbox for our config page, hit "Publish"
9. Check again http://localhost:4502/content/contextaware-config-sample/en.html and publish http://localhost:4503/content/contextaware-config-sample/en.html - "222" is displayed

in both cases it worked as expected. publishing via "Manage Publication" took a few seconds more to complete, but worked as well. did i do something different then you?