Disable postprocessing for a folder

By default, all uploaded assets are processed using the DAM Update Asset workflow. Experience Manager Guides runs an additional processing, called postprocessing, as a part of this workflow. This also helps in generating the UUIDs

While uploading your files and folders to the Adobe Experience Manager Assets server, you can also disable the postprocessing and the generation of UUIDs.

Use the instructions in Configuration overrides to create the configuration file. In the configuration file, provide the following (property) details to disable the postprocessing on a given path or ignore the postprocessing for a folder:

Rules to enable or disable postprocessing

By default, postprocessing is done for every folder path under the Experience Manager DAM folder. Configurations are applied for any folder according to the following rules:

Use regex to enable or disable post-processing

Instead of specifying individual folder paths, you can use regular expressions (regex) to define rules that apply to multiple folders or entire folder hierarchies.

Regex patterns are evaluated against the full asset path during post-processing.

When regular expressions (regex) are used to configure ignored and enabled post‑processing paths, AEM Guides evaluates both configurations against the asset path. If a path matches both an ignore rule and an enable rule, ignore rules always take precedence.

The following examples illustrate how regex-based ignore and enable rules are evaluated.

Regex evaluation scenarios for post-processing

Ignore parent hierarchy, enable specific folder

Ignore regex

regex:/content/dam/lang-test/.*

Enable regex

regex:/content/dam/lang-test/.*/parent1

In the above example, post-processing will be disabled for /content/dam/lang-test/en/parent1.

Although the path matches the enable regex, it is already matched by the ignore regex. Ignore rules take precedence, so post-processing is not enabled.

Ignore specific folder, enable broader hierarchy

Ignore regex

regex:/content/dam/lang-test/.*/parent1

Enable regex

regex:/content/dam/lang-test/.*

In the above example, post-processing will be disabled for /content/dam/lang-test/en/parent1 and enabled for /content/dam/lang-test/en/parent2.

The parent1 path is explicitly ignored and remains disabled. Other folders that match only the enable regex are processed.

Ignore parent folder, enable a child folder

Ignore regex

regex:/content/dam/lang-test/.*/parent1

Enable regex

regex:/content/dam/lang-test/.*/parent1/child1

In the above example, post-processing will be disabled for /content/dam/lang-test/en/parent1 and /content/dam/lang-test/en/parent1/child2 and enabled for /content/dam/lang-test/en/parent1/child1.

The child folder explicitly enabled by regex is processed. Other child folders remain disabled because their parent path matches the ignore regex.

Ignore specific child folder, enable parent hierarchy

Ignore regex

regex:/content/dam/lang-test/.*/parent1/child1

Enable regex

regex:/content/dam/lang-test/.*/parent1

In the above example, post-processing will be disabled for /content/dam/lang-test/en/parent1/child1 and enabled for /content/dam/lang-test/en/parent1 and /content/dam/lang-test/en/parent1/child2.

Only the explicitly ignored child folder is skipped. The parent folder and other child folders are processed because they match the enable regex and do not match the ignore regex.