global search and replace plugin

[Devu Heda]

Hi

Is there an alternative for the global search and replace plugin of Conflunce 3.x? It was such an handy tool to edit 100s of pages using this plugin

Any comments

thanks

[Devu Heda · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the response Josch and Jeremy

https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/CGSR-9 has been opened and we got a jar ..... however life is not as simple with Confluence 4x with wiki markups gone and the complicated html introduced .... searching is much more complicated

[Jeremy Largman]

I think the next best answer is to use the Remote API or the CLI. You'd have to iterate through every page, then use code to search and replace:

https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CSOAP/Confluence+Command+Line+Interface

Search the page for the term 'findReplace'.

[Lukas Knoch -Rumpelcoders-]

If anyone is still looking for a simple solution for this problem you might be interested in this:

Global Search And Replace Plugin

[Claire Townend]

We have a very old Confluence installation (3.x) and I would like to use the old Global Search and Replace plugin. Does anyone have the directions for how to use it? Thanks!

[Jeremy Largman]

1. Go to the plugin page (https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.ck.confluence.gsr)
2. download the jar file
3. browse to Administration >> Plugins
4. Upload your jar

[Claire Townend]

Thanks Jeremy! I had installed the plugin already, but now how do I invoke it to actually run a Search and Replace? Appreciate your help.

[Jeremy Largman]

Yikes - it looks like all the documentation for this is gone now. I used the plugin before, but I can't remember for sure. I think it was in Administration >> Search and Replace, or something like that? Check in the admin console - I think it's somewhere in there.

[Claire Townend]

Hi Jeremy, Once again, thanks for your help. Have hunted through Admin panel and Space Admin and don't see anything. If you have any other ideas, let me know! Thanks again, Claire

[Joerg Bencke]

Actually, I use the webdav interface and notepad++, as someone here suggested, for various sourcecode updates :) With 4.x, that might get more complicated since wikimarkup is "shorter" for the serach/replace dialog, but should work as well.

Just beware that you have to exclude "version*.txt" files from your ops,