Question about the purpose of this plugin?

[mgolino16]

What is the use of this plugin in hippo CMS since it has a built in "Updater Editor" feature? Is this redundant upon that feature but with a different UI or does it serve some other purpose?

[jreijn]

Hi thanks for the interest! This plugin preceded the Updater Editor and can be considered more a Groovy console. The Updater Editor is really focussed on performing update operations on the JCR. It's not capable of doing something else. This groovy addon gives you a way of creating and running any type of groovy script on the JCR. You could for instance create a report based on content in the JCR and write it to a CSV file or to some other location inside the repository or call a webservice and import some data into the repository.

[mgolino16]

Thanks for the quick response and for putting the plugin together!
What I'm trying to do is write a reusable groovy script so admins can create new security domains from within the CMS to set permissions when new groups of users get added. Is this something you think I would need your plugin for or is the updater editor sufficient for this purpose?

[jreijn]

The Update Editor can do this just fine and you won't need this plugin do to just that. Have you seen the Groovy script at http://www.onehippo.org/library/concepts/update/groovy-update-script-examples.html ? It contains a script for creating security domains, etc.

[mgolino16]

Oh that's super helpful! Thanks so much :)