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pharidos
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Best way to remove component references in pages

  • May 8, 2020
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Hi,

We have a component that needs to be removed but there are almost 100+ pages referencing the component, what is the best way to remove the component references from all those pages?

 

AEM 6.4.6.0

 

Thanks,

Prabu

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Best answer by gaurav3415

From querydebug all the paths of pages containing component reference can be fetched, Below is the sample query-

path=/content
1_property=sling:resourceType
1_property.value=<path/of/the/component>
1_property.operation=like

 

Create a servlet/scheduler 

-hit the path

-get the resource

-iterate over its nodes

-delete the component node

-save the session.

 

 

 

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gaurav3415Accepted solution
May 8, 2020

From querydebug all the paths of pages containing component reference can be fetched, Below is the sample query-

path=/content
1_property=sling:resourceType
1_property.value=<path/of/the/component>
1_property.operation=like

 

Create a servlet/scheduler 

-hit the path

-get the resource

-iterate over its nodes

-delete the component node

-save the session.

 

 

 

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pharidosAuthor
Level 2
May 8, 2020
Thanks gaurav and everyone for the response. I was thinking if there is any 3rd party modules (like acs-commons) available to leverage it. Sounds like we have to come up on our own. Thanks
VeenaVikraman
Community Advisor
VeenaVikramanCommunity Advisor
Community Advisor
May 8, 2020

I would write a servlet , query the pages with component reference and remove the component via servlet. The steps would be pretty much same as what @gaurav3415  mentioned above. 

BrianKasingli
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BrianKasingliCommunity Advisor and Adobe Champion
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
May 8, 2020

By creating a servlet using JCR_SQL2. The servlet will query all the pages for any pages that have the existing component's "sling:resourceType", and delete the node using the session object. Please vigorously test this in Dev, QA, Staging, before calling from Prod. 

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