Use cases for running Groovy scripts in Adobe Experience Manager.

[nsvsrk]

Hi all,

What are the typical use cases for running Groovy scripts in Adobe Experience Manager to manipulate content in the JCR, call OSGi services?

Highly appreciate all your replies.

Thanks,

Rama.

[SantoshSai · Accepted solution]

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!

[konstantyn_diachenko]

Hi @nsvsrk ,

I agree with @SantoshSai . He described almost all use cases, but I would also add a point: data collection and visualization.

Sometimes it's much easier to run groovy script to collect data, convert it to csv format and visualize it later.

However, not every clients want to give you access to run groovy scripts on production.

Best regards,

Kostiantyn Diachenko.