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Status Not under consideration
Categories Usability
Created by Guest
Created on May 13, 2021

We need a Find and Replace All that works in one instance, not one-by-one processing

This was an RFE back in Feb. 2017 (RFE 113153). It was closed in April 2021 and not added as a planned work item. After discussing a defect with the Find/Replace with IBM support in an open case, the issue of having to click on the Replace button for each Find came up. I was asked to start a new RFE if I felt it was important to our business requirements to have a Replace All option. It definitely is!! Not having a Replace All button that works all at once has caused us to have to click on each item from the search to change each instance within an artifact one-by-one, individually. It's too tedious and incredibly inefficient, causing an unnecessary amount of time to complete a simple task.
There should be a Replace All option from within modules and also at the Project Area level to have even more usability. Another feature that would be beneficial would be once you hit the Replace All button, have a popup that shows how many artifacts were found within the module to have the instance of the search item, so we can see and verify how many artifacts get changed...in case the process gets interrupted with a server error or something. I suspect the reason the Replace All is in issue has to do with the 200-artifact processing limit, but again, I suggest there a way to easily select 200 artifacts within a module at once and then perform the Find/Replace All.
This way, all of the artifacts are locked, so that the editing could be done at one time. Even this option would be a better option than seeking each one out one-by-one. Although this doesn't solve the issue with not having a Find/Replace All option at the Project Area level. Please see also RFE 92492 to retain the selection of artifacts after processing. RFE 92492 would help in so many use cases, but also with Find/Replace All in case there was a mistake, and the Find/Replace All had to be performed again on the same artifacts that are retained locked for editing further.
I do know there's another option to export to Excel make the changes there, import back in, but then we have the issue of Excel and RTF. It would also be a nice usable feature if RTF was part of Find/Replace, example: we need to put a word in bold or italics throughout a module's artifacts.

Idea priority Medium
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    Mar 21, 2024
    As part of the review process, we strive to be transparent about our intentions with each enhancement suggestion. The IBM Engineering team has carefully reviewed this idea, and based on our understanding, it does not fit our near-term plans. Although we are closing this request, it will be kept in IBM's ideas repository.