Sometimes we change our lingo/verbiage in our textblazes. It would be great if the Ctrl F function to search for a word, would also have the function to Replace all and for the word to be entered. Like Word or Docs provide. I'm currently going through 100's of Textblazes to replace one word with the new agreed word.
Also while I'm searching all snippets through the Search option for this one word that a huge amount of snippet contains. I can only fix one at a time. I do understand this but it would be great if I could go back to the searched list and continue down the list. Currently, I've to search and paste the word each time, pick one and then paste again.
@Andrea_McNamee I understand! To overcome a similar situation in our Org, I have a snippet that contains 1 word, and another snippet that contains a sentence. Both are things we update frequently across many snippets. What I do is, in every snippet where this word and or sentence needs to go, I put in its place an import command. This imports the word snippet or the sentence snippet in its place when the primary snippet(s) runs. This way, I only ever have to update that 1 word or that sentence in its own snippet whenever needed and those updates are instantly imported into every other snippet that uses the respective import command. I hope that makes sense!
Glad to discuss further and provide examples if you wish.
That is a great idea. I do pull in information with imports and you've really got me thinking on how I could make this work for us for future snippets. But not sure how it'll work for already existing snippets.
Any ideas/ examples would be most welcome as I've still got a huge amount to get through and I'm doing them one by one.
Hmmm - You could use the search assistant at the top-right of your Dashboard and search for the exact word or sentence. It will return all snippets containing your search. You can click on them from there. Maybe write your import command and copy/paste it somewhere like MS Sticky Notes or Note Pad, or keep it in your Clipboard history if you have that turned on. Then as you find what you need to replace, simply highlight the word or sentence and paste your import command over it.
I get its a lot to do to get it set up, but I think it'll be worth it. I had to do this with about 90 snippets earlier this year. It ended up not taking as long as I thought it would take. However, I chose to the updates after all my teams were gone for the day so as to not disrupt anyone who would be triggering a snippet at the exact same time I was editing it. Hope this helps!
Hi Brad
That's what I did. The problem would be resolved with a search and replace all option.
Now I've got another one. Same type of project with a different word. Except this word will come up multiple times in each snippet we have. We need a solution for this. Imagine the time saving incurred if we were able to search and replace all with an import snippet.
I have a temporary workaround. I copy and paste every snippet into Docs. Replace all with the import command and then re-copy and paste into each snippet. But there are so many. But at least this way, I'm get it done faster.
Edit: It works. I bet we can export all the snippet as a JSON and open in Docs or Sheets and do this quicker. We would them import them all fixed. I'm wary of one issue, I do seem to be losing the paragraph format when reimporting.
