Looking to do Search and Replace within nested links

[Tracey Newton]

Does anyone know how to do a Search and Replace with nested links? 

We have a long document broken into a couple dozen chapters. Each chapter is a separate link from our Table of Contents in the top link. There are times when we need to make a change across the entire document (like a novelist changing the name of a character), and we would like to do a single Search and Replace to make that change.

We can do a search and replace on a single page at a time (ctrl-f while in edit mode), but we have a lot of links and would like to avoid clicking through every single one.

TIA!

Tracey

[Brant Schroeder]

@Tracey Newton As shared by the others this is not a native feature in Confluence.  You will have to use an app from the Atlassian marketplace.  I would suggest finding one that you feel will meet your needs and using it for the 30 day trial period to confirm it will do what you want it to do.  If it does not work, then you can trial a different product to confirm that it will work for you.  

[Stavros_Rougas_EasyApps]

@Tracey Newton, @Brant Schroeder makes a good point about trying more than one app (if exist).

Bulk editing tools are not native to Confluence and I do not think they will add a lot of them. Find and replace is an original feature of Space Content Manager because it was something we wanted, I was like wow this doesn't exist but it is so useful. Then once we started selling it we discovered all kinds of unexpected use cases. It is a reason we added a link manager, links in Confluence on a technical level are not simply text so if do a find and replace only you can change the text but not the underlying link (yes that's another can of worms).

[Stavros_Rougas_EasyApps]

@Tracey Newton can you try using our app Space Content Manager. It has both a find and replace and a tool to edit links. I'm confident it will solve some of your problems, but given that I do not know all the details I can't say if it will solve all of them.

It would be appreciated if you could share the results, in particular if something doesn't work. We would love to know and see if we can make it work. stavros@easyapps.app.

[Cyrille Martin]

Hi @Tracey Newton 

To address your issue I'm seeing one easy way to do it, with the app on Confluence (Storage Format Source Editor for Confluence ) you can edit the XHTML of the page and perform some search and replace.

Regards