Global Replace Plugin

The Global Replace Plugin is designed to:

1. Search through topics with user supplied criteria
2. Find strings within the topics found
3. Provide a mechanism to pick and choose which hits will be replaced
4. Replace the hit with a user supplied expressions

Please go to GlobalSearchAndReplace to perform a global replace operation.

Plugin Settings

Plugin settings are stored as preferences variables. To reference a plugin setting write %<plugin>_<setting>%, i.e. %GLOBALREPLACEPLUGIN_SHORTDESCRIPTION%

• One line description, is shown in the TextFormattingRules topic:
  • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Global search and replace functionality across all topics in a web

• Debug plugin: (See output in data/debug.txt)
  • Set DEBUG = 0

Known Issues

• This Plugin ignores locked topics, it writes over locked topics
• This Plugin is potentially dangerous. Security measures:
  1. The operations of this Plugin is restricted to the group which can edit the TWikiPreferences (usually TWikiAdminGroup)
  2. For public sites, it is recommended to enable this Plugin only for the short time when needed (it is installed if the following variable shows "installed": installed)
• This Plugin has been tested. However, it does not have ANY WARRANTY, does not even have the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE

Plugin Installation Instructions

Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this plugin. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the Plugin on the server where TWiki is running.

• Download the ZIP file from the Plugin web (see below)
• Unzip GlobalReplacePlugin.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:

  File:	Description:
  data/TWiki/GlobalReplacePlugin.txt	Plugin topic
  data/TWiki/GlobalReplacePlugin.txt,v	Plugin topic repository
  data/TWiki/GlobalSearchAndReplace.txt	Search replace form topic
  data/TWiki/GlobalSearchAndReplace.txt,v	Its repository
  data/TWiki/GlobalSearchAndReplaceHelp.txt	Help topic
  data/TWiki/GlobalSearchAndReplaceHelp.txt,v	Its repository
  data/TWiki/GlobalSearchAndReplaceTopics.txt	Replace result topic
  data/TWiki/GlobalSearchAndReplaceTopics.txt,v	Its repository
  lib/TWiki/Plugins/GlobalReplacePlugin.pm	Plugin Perl module
  pub/TWiki/Plugins/GlobalSearchAndReplaceHelp/GSR.gif	Screenshot

• Test if the installation was successful:
  • Plugin is installed if the following variable shows "installed": installed
• To disable the Plugin rename the lib/TWiki/Plugins/%TOPIC.pm file, or edit the file and return 0 in sub initPlugin.

Plugin Info

Related Topics: TWikiPreferences, TWikiPlugins

-- TWiki:Main/PeterThoeny - 03 Nov 2004