Use cases for running Groovy scripts in Adobe Experience Manager.

Hi @nsvsrk,

Groovy scripts in AEM are super useful, especially when you want to do something quick without going through a full deployment. I’ve used them a bunch - mostly through the ACS AEM Tools Groovy Console.

Some typical use cases I’ve seen or personally used:

• Bulk updates in JCR - for example, updating a property across multiple pages or assets. Like, a metadata field across hundreds of product pages.

• Content migration tasks - restructuring nodes, copying stuff around, or even flattening out deeply nested content models. It’s a lot easier than writing and deploying a custom Java utility.

• Calling OSGi services - you can adapt to stuff like the PageManager, TagManager, or even custom services. So if you want to, say, tag a bunch of assets programmatically, it’s totally doable.

• One-off maintenance tasks  - I’ve used it to find and report missing properties, delete orphaned nodes, or generate quick stats on content usage.

It’s really powerful, but yeah - definitely test thoroughly in lower environments first. One bad script can mess things up big time 😅

Hope that helps!