CRX Package Import Order

[Former Community Member]

Hello,

AEM 6.1.

We are mass migrating content into AEM via CRX Package. The nodes are created correctly but they appear in the CRX not in a alphabetically order.

Is there a way to order the nodes in a alphabetically order by using a script after the import or setting a specific attribut in the .conten.xml before the import?  

P.ex:

    - Folder

        -node b

        -node c

        -node a

change order to:

    -Folder

       -node a

       -node b

       -node c

Kind regards,

Jerry

[smacdonald2008]

WHen packages are installed - the nodes are not ordered (for example /content/dam). They appear the same way as they were when the package was created. 

TO order them - you would have to write custom logic using the JCR API. You can use a method such as: 

http://www.day.com/maven/jcr/1.0/7.1.7_Moving_and_Copying.html

However - from a performance perspective - there is no benefit in ordering the nodes.  

[Sunil_Chowdhary]

If Folder node primaryType  is  nt:Folder or sling:Folder , the child nodes should be alphabetically sorted.

If folder type is sling:OrderedFolder, the results might contain nodes ordered the way it were put into repository by a package or code.

[Former Community Member · Accepted solution]

the folder has the type cq:page . 

It seems to be a problem with order of adding content to the package before importing.

For anybody interested in a workaround to sort the children alphabetically in CRX  with Linux (no guarantee):

USER=admin PASS=<pass> URL="http://localhost:4502" DIRECTORY=<directory for which the children should appear in a sorted order> echo $DIRECTORY | grep -Po '[^/a-zA-Z0-9-_]' if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo " $DIRECTORY - does not seem to be a correct directory" fi HTTP_STATUS_CODE=`curl -s -I -u $USER:$PASS $URL$DIRECTORY.1.json | grep -P "HTTP(.*) 200 OK" | wc -l` if [ $HTTP_STATUS_CODE -ne 1 ]; then echo "- $URL$DIRECTORY does not exist. Exiting" exit 1 fi children=`curl -s -u $USER:$PASS $URL$DIRECTORY.1.json | grep -Po '"[^"]*":{' | grep -Po '[^"](.*)[^":{]'` if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "- Problem parsing children. Exiting" exit 1 fi sorted_children=`for i in $children do if [ $i != "jcr:content" ]; then echo $i fi done | sort` count=1 echo "  - New sort order:" for i in $sorted_children do curl -s -u $USER:$PASS -F":order=$count"  $URL$DIRECTORY/$i  > /dev/null echo "    - $i " if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "- Problem ordering children. Exiting" exit 1 fi count=$((count+1)) done