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How to add multiple rootPath in Coral 3 Pathfield?

jerinraj5555 — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 06:45:29 +0000

As per the Adobe documentation rootPath of a Pathfield component only supports a string, not multiple strings, ie., only one rootPath. So we need to resolve this issue by overlay or extending this component/libs/granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/picker/picker.jsp but from 6.4 onward because picker is marked as granite: FinalArea(Defines a node as final then the Nodes are classified as final cannot be overlaid or inherited.), so we can't overlay.

Instead of enabling multiple root paths for a Pathfield, we can follow an alternate approach like choosing a desired root path from a selection list in the dialogue and on the basis of this selection, the root path of the Pathfieldcan be set.

First, we need to define some options in the select component. Here the options are /content/demo/en and /content/demo/fr.
Next, we need to define the Pathfield component, after saving the dialogue you can see the below output.
Put the below JavaScript snippet in your clientlibsfolder and then you can enable the rootPath set as per the selection.

Replication in AEM(Adobe Experience Manager)-Part 2

jerinraj5555 — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 16:09:26 +0000

In my previous post, I have explained Replication in detail. In this post, I will explain how to activate/deactivate the content(asset and web page) by reading the path from an excel file.

Once I get the path of the excel file from the servlet then need to check if the path exists in the system or not.
If the file exists in the asset folder then convert it as a Workbook and read the row and column.
If the data in the cell is valid and the path exists then the page and assets paths are replicated one by one.

       String path = "/content/dam/sample.xls"
    Session session = resolver.adaptTo(Session.class);
    if (session.itemExists(path)) {
// Creating a Workbook from an Excel file (.xls or .xlsx)
Workbook workbook = WorkbookFactory.create(asset.getOriginal().getStream());
// Getting the Sheet at index
Sheet sheet = workbook.getSheetAt(sheetNo);
// Create a DataFormatter to format and get each cell's value as String
DataFormatter dataFormatter = new DataFormatter();
for (Row row : sheet) {
    Cell cell =row.getCell(columnId);
    String cellValue = dataFormatter.formatCellValue(cell);                  
      if(StringUtils.isNotBlank(cellValue) && 
               (cellValue.startsWith("/content")&& 
                  session.itemExists(cellValue))) {
        replicateContent(cellValue,session,isReplicate);
    activatePageAssets(cellValue,session,isReplicate);
}
}
}

The function replicateContent will accept session instance, web page link, and status for identifying which operation to be performed.

private void replicateContent( String path,Session session,boolean isReplicate) 
     {

    try {
            if (isReplicate) {
                replicator.replicate(session, ReplicationActionType.ACTIVATE, path);
            } else {
                replicator.replicate(session, ReplicationActionType.DEACTIVATE, path);
            }

    } catch (ReplicationException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Next, we want to publish the assets as well right? so we need to find the path of the assets associated with the page.
The following code snippet will return the path of the assets associated with each page.

AssetReferenceSearch search = new AssetReferenceSearch 
    (jcrNode, DAM_ROOT, request.getResourceResolver()); 
Map<String,Asset> result = search.search();
result.keySet()

Once we get the path of the asset (result.keySet()) then we will iterate one by one and replicate the asset by calling replicateContent( String path,Session session,boolean isReplicate) .

If you think there is a more efficient way to achieve the same, please leave a note in the comments. Happy coding😊!

Replication in AEM(Adobe Experience Manager)

jerinraj5555 — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:08:16 +0000

Replication is a process of activating/publishing a page and it's content from author to publish environment. AEM provide replication API to build a custom step that replicates content from the Author instance to the Publisher instance.

Replication using Replicator API
Initially, We need to create a Replicator instance by using @Reference annotation.

@Reference
private Replicator replicator;

Next, We need to create a session instance and then pass this object to replicate API. Here I have shared a sample code snippet for creating a session instance.

ResourceResolver resolver = request.getResourceResolver();
        session = resolver.adaptTo(Session.class);

Finally, we need to pass the session instance and path to the replication API.
Here I have shared an example that will activate/deactivate web page based on a flag.

  private void managePageActivation(Session session, String path,boolean isReplicate) 
     {

    try {
            if (isReplicate) {
                replicator.replicate(session, ReplicationActionType.ACTIVATE, path);
                log.info("Page activated: ", path);
            } else {
                replicator.replicate(session, ReplicationActionType.DEACTIVATE, path);
                log.info("Page De-activated: ", path);
            }

    } catch (ReplicationException e) {
            log.info("Replication failed "+e.getMessage(), path);
            e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

In the above function will do the following things,

The function will accept session instance, web page link and status for identifying which operation to be performed(Activation or Deactivation). The path is look like this /content/your-project/xxxx/en/user

Then we will call the replicate(Session session, ReplicationActionType type, String path) to replicate the content to the publish instance.

In my next post, I will explain how to activate/deactivate the content(asset and web page) by reading the path from an excel file.

I would like to hear your thoughts and suggestions from you to make it better.