Filter rules expression format in package manager

[Anas_R]

I am creating packages to sync our AEM prod environment with dev using package manager. Since package manager fails to build the packages with large size, I was splitting some folders by creating packages for the sub-folders inside the larger folders. But as there is many number of sub folders, it is a burden to create packages for each one. So, I decided to create packages by taking multiple sub-folders inside the larger folder. For that I gave regular expressions in filter rules like following;

include	/content/dam/portfolio/properties/f*
include	/content/dam/portfolio/properties/g*
include	/content/dam/portfolio/properties/h*

What I meant with this is to take all the sub-folders starting with f, g, and h inside /content/dam/portfolio/properties/ folder.
But this is not working as expected. What is the correct solution to achieve my requirement?

[EstebanBustamante]

Hi, 

Keep in mind that the include and exclude rules accept only regular expressions. Therefore, I believe that might be the issue. You can try something similar to the following, which will include only the folders which start with the letter "f" under the path "/content/dam/portfolio/properties"

/content/dam/portfolio/properties/f[^/]+.*

Here you can find more info: https://jackrabbit.apache.org/filevault/filter.html#Include_and_Exclude_Elements 

Hope this helps

[Mahedi_Sabuj · Accepted solution]

The subfolders must be direct children of the filter root, or you should allow all parent folders up to the filter root [0]. Additionally, make a slight adjustment to the include regex by using f.*, g.*, etc.

[0]: https://jackrabbit.apache.org/filevault/filter.html#usage-for-export

[aanchal-sikka]

@Anas_R 

If content sync is a regular activity, please review https://adobe-consulting-services.github.io/acs-aem-commons/features/contentsync/index.html

Its a new content sync feature in ACS commons to incrementally sync content