Search & Replace in Report Types
- Marcus Brändle
Advanced Search
The advanced search can be opened by clicking on the “Search and Replace” button in the top bar of the list of report types:
The advanced search offers more sophisticated search possibilities than the standard search (that searches only in id’s and descriptions):
restricting report types (by id)
restricting node id’s
restricting building blocks (by id)
restricting either properties or parameter
restricting by a specified property or parameter value
All such restrictions can be entered by using the wildcard character * and multiple search values can be combined using the pipe character |
Operations on nodes, properties or parameters found
Handling of drafts:
If a report type has no draft version, a draft will be created by any (bulk) operations
If a report type already has a draft version, the draft will be modified
Individual vs. bulk operations
When inspecting the list of found elements one can then
run a replace operation on a single element
a code snippet is provided highlighting the found property or parameter value
one can direclty open the report type at the specified element to further manually inspect
select a series of elements for a bulk replace operation (by checkboxes)
Types of operations supported
replace a property (or parameter) value
delete a property (or parameter)
delete a node
replace a node with a new node (provided in Json format)
add a node as child or sibling (with control on positioning)