Web Page Composer - FAQ Web form

Hello Everyone,
Hello SDN community,
This forum thread is intentionally created to collect your feedback and ideas regarding the FAQ Web form.
With this new Web form you can easily create and manipulate FAQ documents in a structured manner.
For more information regarding this new Web form and its features adn to download it visit this address: [https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/KMC/CustomizingtheWebPageComposer]
Your constructive suggestions will help to evolve the Web form further and facilitate the community to create more sophisticated and enhanced versions of this basic reference implementation. Feel free to contribute also your version and discuss in public.
Here are some basic questions that can guide you:
1. Does this new Web form help in your particular scenario? How?
2. How would you rate from 0 to 5 your satisfaction with this particular Web form?
3. What can be improved in the Web form?
4. Do you miss something from documentation point of view?
Explore the new WPC wiki pages - find all the information regarding WPC at one place, download new Web forms, and feel free to contribute.
[Web Page Composer Wiki|https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/KMC/WebPageComposer]
Best Regards,
WPC team @ SAP

Hi Georgi,
I was trying to create a FAQ Custom Editor using your How To Guides.
I am facing a problem as already stated in the thread:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/thread?threadID=1244125&tstart=0
To be more specific, initializeFromPageContext function of FAQComponent.java file, @ the line
question =(TextEdit) context.getComponentForId(Question_ + editorObject.getId());,
+context.getComponentForId(Question_ + editorObject.getId())+ is returning Null
Regards,
JK

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