Search and Replace in scanEZ

Mass Data Operations - Search & Replace

The Search and Replace button allows you to search for values in all fields of a given document collection.
You also have the option to view these items in a flexYgrid interface, and to compare old vs new values before committing to the replace operation.

The Search and Replace window

Select Fields to search

All Fields: Searches all the fields of your document collection.

Selected Fields: You can type any specific field names in this section. This option also allows you to open the Select the item you want to add dialog. You can then choose between Items found in the first document or Items from the item def table.

TIP	Use the Ctrl key to make a multi selection. In the Selected Fields area, fields will be separate by a semi-colon ';'. This separator must also be used when you manually type your selections.

Search for

The 'Search for' section uses Regex to perform his searches. This is common to most Ytria tools and you can find more information about Regular Expression on this page.

TIP	You can use brackets (...) to create capture buffers to find substrings within the search area. For example, the following Regex finds all values containing 'logwatch' and 'Linux': (.logwatch.)(.Linux.)

Search and Replace actions

Search - This will search, yet nothing will be replaced

This action load the Search Result Grid.

Grid right-click options - Tools and Columns:

Add to New 'My Selection': Adds selected documents to a new My Selection virtual folder. See My Selection for more details.

Current 'My Selection': Adds selected documents to the current My Selection virtual folder.

More information about Grid Tools and Options is here.

The Search Result Grid includes the following columns:

Title	Document name.
Item Name	Document field item name.
Value	Search value result.

More information about Grid Columns is here.

Preview - See the new result of your Search & Replace before you apply changes

This action load the Preview Search & Replace Grid.

TIP	Select the fields you would like to change and click 'Apply': Use the Ctrl key to make a multi selection.

Grid right-click options - Tools and Columns:

Add to New 'My Selection': Adds selected documents to a new My Selection virtual folder. See My Selection for more details.

Current 'My Selection': Adds selected documents to the current My Selection virtual folder.

More information about Grid Tools and Options is here.

The Preview Search & Replace Grid includes the following columns:

Title	Document name.
Item Name	Document field item name.
Old Value	Actual value.
New Value	Value set in the 'Replace with' field.

More information about Grid Columns is here.

Replace - Apply your changes immediately

This action directly replaces the selected entries in the documents.

Replace with

Enter the new value you want to use (i.e. to do the replacing).

If you select the Search action, this area will not be editable.

TIP	Use $1, $2, $3 etc. to refer to captured substrings in your replacement. For example, if you Search for the following Regex: (.logwatch.)(.Linux.) And you type the following string in the 'Replace with' area: $1$2 To Archive The New Value displayed on the Grid will be: