Find and replace project comments
If you are an administrator or have permissions, you can search for and replace text in one or more project components without opening them. You can choose Replace All to change a term only when it appears between comment tags. Changes are then saved to the Inspire database. For more details on how a text-only search works, read Finding project comments to replace or report on.
A content owner or administrator can set permissions to deny access to components or folders. If your permissions to content has been blocked and you are not an administrator, you cannot use the Find and Replace option in the Selected Components pane.
Use supported components
- If you choose a component that's locked (
by you,
by another user,
by the system) Inspire skips it and adds a warning to your notification.
- If you choose a binary component, Inspire skips it and adds a warning to your notification.
If you want to use other find and replace options, follow the steps in:
- Create a project report for comment searches
- Finding project text to replace or report on
- Finding project attributes to replace or report on
- Finding processing instructions in projects
- Finding project text in code and content to replace or report on
To update project text in comments using find and replace: