Thanks Mark, Thanks a lot. I figure there had to be a way without opening in something like notepad++. Now that I see it, it seems very simple. I guess I have a hard time with the docs. Again, thank you.
On Monday, February 5, 2018 at 2:44:45 PM UTC-5, Mark S. wrote: > > 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/27aee5da-fec9-4579-8640-de8b73a07466%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
