Import mode - Multiple inputs / one output

[kunwarsaluja]

Description : We've had usecases where we needed to merge multiple urls from a non-Eds site into a single docx file but there wasn't a direct mode to use that can help transform multiple inputs into one output

Use-case - Customer had 1000s of pages where they had slideshows ranging from 10 to 100 slides and urls differentiated by query-parameter. Final output we wanted was a single docx file with all these slides with a section break between them

Way we solved if was to do 2 step process, first to import all these urls into a single docx file (say 100 docx files) and then use node scripts to merge them into a single file.

[kptdobe]

Probably an edge case. But of course, if this is a frequent operation, why not extending the importer.

I would have done it the other way around:

• enable the local cache (aem import --cache ./cache)
• use the bulk import to feed the cache
• run a script to merge the cached html slides pages into single slideshow html pages
• run the import against the cached slideshows served via a local http server.