The old MIF2GO would do that. The developer passed in 2014 and the program is 
now freeware. I don't think it is updated any more. Give it a look though.

> On Jul 19, 2017, at 6:30 PM, Scott Prentice <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Gillian...
> 
> You're probably best off creating a custom ExtendScript that maps the old 
> names to new names. You'd import the new template, then run the script. You 
> could run it on the book, so it processes all files at once. You could even 
> set up the script to import the template. This shouldn't be a complicated 
> script to write.
> 
> Alternatively .. I do have a plugin called PropertyMapper, which can do the 
> mapping, but it's probably overkill since it's designed to modify lots of 
> properties, not just the name. You may want to give it a try if writing such 
> a script would end up costing more than the plugin (which I doubt).
> 
>    http://leximation.com/tools/info/propertymapper.php
> 
> Note that this plugin uses a DITA file as the format for the mapping file. 
> This doesn't mean that you have to be using DITA for your content, you just 
> have to be using Frame in structured mode if you want to be able to edit the 
> mapping file in Frame. (You can edit the file outside of FM if you'd like .. 
> but it's just easier to use structured mode.)
> 
> Feel free to use the plugin in trial mode to do the mapping .. if you can get 
> it done in 30 days, you're good to go!  :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> ...scott
> 
> 
>> On 7/19/17 3:50 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> We have a new company template for FrameMaker docs.
>> 
>> We have a lot of legacy guides, and we're now required to switch all of the 
>> docs to the new templates. The new templates use different paragraph and 
>> character format names.
>> 
>> I need some sort of script to rename, or remap the old names to the new 
>> names, so that when I import the new template, it automatically changes the 
>> text to the new formats.
>> 
>> Does anyone know of some sort of tag mapping tool or script for doing this?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Gillian
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