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Where are my Coveo for Sitecore placeholders?

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I recently had the opportunity to work with the latest Coveo for Sitecore release ( Oct 2017 4.1) that includes the new Coveo Hive Framework. While working with this release I discovered an issue where my placeholders did not appear in Sitecore Experience Editor. Here is what this looks like in Experience Editor. No placeholders appear and therefore new components cannot be added in Experience Editor. Problem To investigate the problem, I created a new Sitecore 8.2 instance and installed the Coveo for Sitecore Oct 2017 4.1 release and was not able to reproduce it. After digging further into the issue I found the problem was related to a conflict between the (incredibly useful) Sitecore Dynamic Placeholders module and Coveo's Dynamic Placeholder implementation. If you are not familiar with the Sitecore Dynamic Placeholders module you can find it on NuGet here or on GitHub here . The problem was that the Dynamic Placeholder module inadvertently identified Coveo Dynamic plac