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Features

With the Search and Replace function it is possible to search through entire spaces or pages for certain text content and replace it with a new one.

The Search & Replace button can be found:

in the Edit menu
in the toolbar
by pressing S

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This function can be useful when copying spaces, for example when content has a lot of references to old content, like links, comments, names, etc.

The Search & Replace button can be found

in the Edit menu
in the toolbar
by pressing S

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Search and Replace

For replacing a specific text content select a space or a page and open the popup window in the above described way.

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Be careful

Careful

when unchecking the "Respect XML Tags". This might break your pages if wrongly used

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Check the example at the bottom of this page.

The following options can be used:

Search
Simple text or regex	It can be searched via simple text content or regular expression
Replace by	Searched text gets replaced by this content
Respect XML Tags	It means that the searching will not break XML tags and will replace only the visible content on the page Use this function carefully, if you don't understand Confluence's XML structure because it might break your pages!
Content choice
Change	The following options can be changed. If one of this gets

unticked

Content search
unchecked it will not be browsed.
Content search	How the content will be searched (recursive or not) and if blog posts should be included

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It can either be searched for content, previewed what changes will be done or directly replaced (this option cannot be undone).

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Replacing content when "Respect XML tags" checkbox is unchecked

After copying a space, I want all my links in the new space to point to my new space. This will not happen automatically, so I can use the "Search and replace" functionality from Space Admin.

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This is how the tag looks like at the moment (to get the page in this format, I have to click on the page options "View Storage Format" )

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<ri:page ri:space-key="NS" ri:content-title="New space Home" /> //original tag

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This is how I want it to be replaced:

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<ri:page ri:space-key="AS" ri:content-title="Another space Home" /> //updated tag

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but

But what will not work, is searching for:

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<ri:page ri:space-key="NS"

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and

And replacing

with

with:

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<ri:page ri:space-key="AS"

because

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Because in this way, I will break Confluences XML structure.

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