Every Sitecore Instance using GQL is prone to this scenario of template not found - Sitecore Component With GQL Queries Broke On Production
Hello Team, Today, I wanted to share a real scenario and a solution of it about what happened suddenly to our components and how we identified it and how we resolved it, and most importantly it could happen to your installations too Scenario We have one Sitecore 10.2 headless instance and two sites, One site is non-sxa which is legacy site and another site is a new site which uses headless SXA. Now, non-sxa site is already live and working fine with all components etc. and the new headless site was in development and it has separate development team, So we have same DEV/UAT/PROD environments. One fine morning they took their code and site on environment but strangely some of the GQL components like header footer of legacy site disappeared. Troubleshooting Steps 1) We checked the broken component's GQL query 2) We took that query and fired it in GQL IDE, and we observed that, Some of the templates references we used were not found, which was working just fine and we have not had