I believe something like this will do the trick: <$button>Genus Swap <$list filter="[field:genus[someA]]"> <$action-setfield $field="genus" $value="someB"/> </$list> </$button>
Absolutely make a backup of your TW file before trying this. There's always the possibility of something going off the rails when doing bulk changes like this. -- Mark On Monday, February 5, 2018 at 11:28:49 AM UTC-8, Shawn Murdock wrote: > > First off, I would like to thank all the devs that work on this project. > Tiddlywiki is the best thing I have come across in a while. Hopefully > someday I will understand the mechanics enough to help with it. > > But, at this point I have a question. I have one tiddywiki which I am > using as notes / database (of sorts) for my plant collection. All of my > individual plant tiddlers have several fields. I would like to modify the > same field on all of the plant tiddlers; is there an easy way to do it > without having to edit each one by hand? > > To clarify: say I have 200 plant tiddlers each with a field for the genus > of the plant. I want to change all of them from "somegenusA" to > "somegenusB". How can I bulk change a number of tiddlers easily? Is there a > way in tiddlywiki or do I have to edit the actual file? > > Thanks for the help. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/910c8eea-cb4a-4ae6-968a-c89bccb8f7be%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
