Multiple Property Replacement Wizard is a powerful wizard with rich functionality.
This blog provides overview on some advanced functionalities of the wizard related to properties.
You want to replace a property value for several objects.
1. Open "Find & Replace " wizard
2. Enter Name criteria (supports wildcard)
3. Choose required root for search – Portal Content
4. Choose Object Type – iView
5. Choose Include templates (optional) in case you want to change the value also for all templates with predefined criteria.
6. Choose search for non-unit objects
This is a very powerful option – search for objects inside parent objects.
For example: search iView in the Role hierarchy.
But this kind of Search has performance cost.
Next screen will reduce performance cost by filtering the type of the iView:
1. Add Row
2. Select a property
3. Choose Template
4. Choose specific property and click OK button
You can enter manually a property ID and value in case the required property ID does not appear in the list of the available properties.
Recommended way: Open any similar object in the Property Editor and copy the property ID to avoid typos.
Enter value and click Next button :
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You can skip to the Next step without any changes, but notes that some additional options are provided in the search results list:
1. Option to remove some objects from result list
2. Option to export search result into a file.
3. Locate specific object from the result list in the Portal Content Catalog tree.
4. Open specific object in its editor.
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At this point we have a search results list filtered by the provided criteria.
You need to decide which property and value, and method will be used.
Don't get confuse between this stage (3) and stage 1. At this stage we search for the property we would like to change. In stage 1 this part was used as a search filter only.
Now at this stage we can look for the same criteria as in stage 1 or any other criteria.
Number of options for replacement exist:
Click Next
Click Finish and enjoy the results 