Overview:

Through Activation you can only activate one resource at a time or number of limited resource through multi select. However some time you have a situation where more than one files or a resource tree needs to be activated (For example new section of website is going live).

Using Tree Activation:

• From site admin click on Tools -> Replication
• Then double click on activate tree. You can also directly go there by HOST:PORT/etc/replication/treeactivation.html

• You can then select Start Path. All resource under that path and subpath will be activated. If Possible do not select path with a lot of children's in it. That might cause performance issue.
• You can also various options for activation. Based on option selected all pages will get activated.
• Here is what various options mean

Tree Activation Options

For Resource Option:

• Only Modified: only activate pages that have been modified.
• Only Activated: only activate pages that have (already) been activated. Acts as a form of reactivation.
• Ignore Deactivated: ignore any pages which have been deactivated.

For Activation:

• Select Dry Run if you want to check which pages would be activated. This is only an emulation, no pages will be activated.
• Select Activate if you want to activate the pages.

Curl command to do Tree Activation:

Curl Tree Activation CQ

curl -u admin:admin -F cmd=activate -F ignoredeactivated=true -F onlymodified=true -F path=/content/geometrixx http://HOST:PORT/etc/replication/treeactivation.html

Important Resource:

• https://dev.day.com/docs/en/cq/current/wcm/page_publish/tree_activate.html