Find and Replace

[Leo B]

Is there a better way to find and replace a word on all the spaces of Confluence than doing it manually? The version i have is 3.4.2.

Thanks in advance...

[Sherif Mansour]

You might also wante to watch this related feature request to stay updated: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-2522

[Kevin Buchs]

OK, bigger problem. I would use the Command Line Interface or a scripting interface (SOAP, Python?) to get the job done. I haven't done that before.

Check out these pages:

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Confluence+XML-RPC+and+SOAP+APIs

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/Remote+API+(SOAP)+Examples

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/8295/how-do-i-use-an-external-table-csv-to-create-new-pages-automatically

[Edwin Chan]

You can find and replace language strings here:

\confluence\WEB-INF\lib\confluence-3.4.6.jar\com\atlassian\confluence\core\ConfluenceActionSupport.properties

[Kevin Buchs]

I use emacs ( http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ ). Certainly this can be done with a myriad of other text/programming editors. Share your environment (OS/Version) and I can recommend.

Procedure:

1. Open the Conf. page in the mark up editor,
2. Ctrl-A and Ctrl-X to cut the page.
3. Switch to emacs and paste into a fresh buffer.
4. Then I can use the powerful search/replace commands there.
5. Copy it and then switch back to Conf. and paste into editor.

[Leo B]

I need something to go through all the spaces and replace a word. I can't do it one by one.