Re: [xwiki-users] global text search and replace

2012-01-06 Thread Vincent Massol
Hi, On Jan 6, 2012, at 1:40 AM, Jinyan Su wrote: Hi. I'd like to search through the body of all xwiki documents for a specified string (say, fu), and replace it with another (bar). Been searching extensions and google and haven't come-up with any way to do this. mediawiki does have

Re: [xwiki-users] global text search and replace

2012-01-06 Thread Jinyan Su
Thanks. I'll give it a try. Saw your name all over the pages. You rock. Regards, --Robs On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Vincent Massol vinc...@massol.net wrote: Hi, On Jan 6, 2012, at 1:40 AM, Jinyan Su wrote: Hi. I'd like to search through the body of all xwiki documents for a

Re: [xwiki-users] global text search and replace

2012-01-06 Thread Guillaume Lerouge
Hi, one note: be careful when using something like this on your whole wiki. It can have unexpected side effects (like replacing parts of words in place you didn't expect) and you'll have no quick way to rollback (you'll have to do it manually, page by page). Guillaume On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at

Re: [xwiki-users] global text search and replace

2012-01-06 Thread Vincent Massol
On Jan 6, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Guillaume Lerouge wrote: Hi, one note: be careful when using something like this on your whole wiki. It can have unexpected side effects (like replacing parts of words in place you didn't expect) and you'll have no quick way to rollback (you'll have to do it

Re: [xwiki-users] global text search and replace

2012-01-06 Thread Jinyan Su
Thanks. Is there a pointer to using XWQL to limit the query? (I've only started using xwiki.) Definitely don't want it trolling through all spaces in the wiki. --Xiao Su On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Vincent Massol vinc...@massol.net wrote: On Jan 6, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Guillaume Lerouge

Re: [xwiki-users] global text search and replace

2012-01-06 Thread Vincent Massol
On Jan 6, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Jinyan Su wrote: Thanks. Is there a pointer to using XWQL to limit the query? (I've only started using xwiki.) Definitely don't want it trolling through all spaces in the wiki. http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/QueryGuide -Vincent --Xiao

Re: [xwiki-users] global text search and replace

2012-01-06 Thread Jinyan Su
Thanks! What a great way to be exposed to a users group for the first time. Much appreciated! On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Vincent Massol vinc...@massol.net wrote: On Jan 6, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Jinyan Su wrote: Thanks. Is there a pointer to using XWQL to limit the query? (I've only

[xwiki-users] global text search and replace

2012-01-05 Thread Jinyan Su
Hi. I'd like to search through the body of all xwiki documents for a specified string (say, fu), and replace it with another (bar). Been searching extensions and google and haven't come-up with any way to do this. mediawiki does have an extension to enable this. Anything similar in xwiki?