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Simply way to change many page URLs?

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Hi, we need to change a product name within a URL, e.g.  OLD-product-name.html to NEW-product-name.html. We have a lot of nodes and it looks like we need to manually edit and re-publish hundreds of files. Apparently we can't roll out the changes - we have to edit each node separately. Is there a simple built-in method, script or batch that can accomplish the task and keep the inheritances in AEM 6.3? Thanks in advance!

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Hi,

This can be achieved by doing Page Move, once page move/rename is done new page will be published and old page deactivate automatically.

Creating and Organizing Pages

Though you can automate by creating utility/servlet and do page move using PageManager API or JCR Session API.

PageManager ("The Adobe AEM Quickstart and Web Application.") 

Session (Content Repository for Java Technology API Version 2.0)



Arun Patidar

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This may be possible working with the PageManager API. There are methods that let you modify pages. I have never tried using this API to change page names - but something you can look into.

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Hi,

This can be achieved by doing Page Move, once page move/rename is done new page will be published and old page deactivate automatically.

Creating and Organizing Pages

Though you can automate by creating utility/servlet and do page move using PageManager API or JCR Session API.

PageManager ("The Adobe AEM Quickstart and Web Application.") 

Session (Content Repository for Java Technology API Version 2.0)



Arun Patidar

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That is exactly what i was thinking. This use case may make a really good HELPX article.

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I'm kind of a newbie so I wouldn't recognize the correct answer. I will pass your suggestions along to our IT team. Thanks for your help, please let me know if you have any more recommendations on this topic.

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Arun, would that method allow us to change many files across different nodes? Or would we edit each file individually?

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Hi,

With the help of APIs you can change many nodes in a one go. But it is depends how your content is structured and what would be the criteria to filter out pages programatically which needs to be renamed.



Arun Patidar

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Translations may be an issue. Thanks again for your help!

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Hi Scott,

I've written a sample servlet to rename a page using PageManager API.

aem63app-repo/MovePageServlet.java at master · arunpatidar02/aem63app-repo · GitHub



Arun Patidar