Is there a way to import / export tasks from different CQ instances?

Question

I have two CQ instances, and between them I want to be able to import / export tasks.

For example:

In example 1, I see all the tasks by going to http://instance1/libs/cq/taskmanagement/content/taskmanager.html#/tasks/Delta

In example 2, I see all the tasks by going to http://instance2/libs/cq/taskmanagement/content/taskmanager.html#/tasks/Delta

There may be some scenarios in which I want to take all tasks from instance2 and add them as additional tasks to instance1 (on top of tasks that may already be installed).

Can this be done?

Answer 1

Yes, you can do this using the package manager. Tasks are stored as nodes in the JCR repository, so you can create a package that will filter the nodes of the tasks that you want to transfer from one instance to another. For example, you can define a package with this filter definition to include all tasks:

 /etc/taskmanagement/tasks 

If you do not need all the tasks, you may need to define the filter (s) more narrowly to select only those that you want to include.

For example:

 /etc/taskmanagement/tasks/2015-05-04/Delta/TheTaskYouWantToMigrate 

Use a browser when defining a filter to find the tasks you want to enable.

For more information on using package manager, see Tutorial also shows how to create a package and add filters. Once you have created a package with filters for the tasks you want to include, then create a package and download it. On another instance, download the package you created and install it. You will then see the tasks that your first instance replicated to the second instance.

Answer 2

In addition to what Sean said, you can also use replication mechanisms to do your job and replicate the right nodes between any two instances.