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    Global change in all forms, code etc.

    I have a database which consists of around 30 forms, 60 codes, 20 browses etc. Now I would like to change the words "First Time Customer" to "New Customer" in every table, form, brose, report etc. Is there an add on program or any way to make this global change easily. For example "Change all occurrences of 'First Time Customer' to 'New Customer'" Otherwise I have to look at every line of code and form. That could take hours. Any ideas would be appreciated.
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    Re: Global change in all forms, code etc.

    Hi Harold,
    Are you talking about the field name in the table or data in a record? For the latter an update operation can be used, but to change field names you will have to edit each table.
    Robin

    Discernment is not needed in things that differ, but in those things that appear to be the same. - Miles Sanford

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      #3
      Re: Global change in all forms, code etc.

      For forms and browses you can open each in design mode and use the Code Explorer and Object Explorer where you can search.

      For code on the code tab you can do a global search.
      There can be only one.

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        Re: Global change in all forms, code etc.

        Contact Cal Locklin on this message board. One of his AIMS addin apps might help you.
        Mike W
        __________________________
        "I rebel in at least small things to express to the world that I have not completely surrendered"

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          Re: Global change in all forms, code etc.

          Stan, at the risk of my sounding dumb, please explain how to do a global search of all codes.

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            Re: Global change in all forms, code etc.

            With the code tab visible, right click in any "whitespace". The context sensitive menu will present a search option. This applies to saved functions and scripts. If the code is event code for a layout you must open the layout and use the code explorer.
            There can be only one.

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              Re: Global change in all forms, code etc.

              I am on the control panel and see the tabs :TABLES, TfORMS, BROWES, REPORTS,... CODE. I clicked on the code giving focus to all of the code programs in the list. This includes about 100 FUNCTIONS and SCRIPTS or more. Now I right clicked on the white space and see a drop down menu that starts with Run, Design, Delete, Remain and ends with Add Ins. I do not see any search option. Where do I find this so that I can do a global search for the phrase "First Time Customer" and change it to "New Customer" in all of the scripts and functions.

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                Re: Global change in all forms, code etc.

                The right click menu you describe indicates you have a script or function selected/hilighted. Click into the whitespace at the far right or elsewhere until no script/function is selected. Then right click again.

                You should then see the drop down menu beginning with View, Arrange Icons,........, Search Scripts and Functions,..... ending with New.
                There can be only one.

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                  Re: Global change in all forms, code etc.

                  Thank you very much. In the deep recesses of my memory I immediately remembered from way back when what you said. I came up with over 200 scripts etc and 800 occurrences of "First Time Customer". Now, if there was only a way to not just search, but search and replace, all would be good.

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                    Re: Global change in all forms, code etc.

                    The same right click menu has Global Search and Replace but it does exactly what you tell it to do, not necessarily what you intended. Thus it is very dangerous. If you proceed with using that I would make several backups first.

                    With a long search string like First Time Customer you are probably not going to get many, if any, unintended matches.
                    There can be only one.

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                      Re: Global change in all forms, code etc.

                      Originally posted by Mike Wilson View Post
                      Contact Cal Locklin on this message board. One of his AIMS addin apps might help you.
                      Thanks for the plug Mike. Yeah, my AIMS App Analyzer would probably do most of what he wants - checking all the code in the Code tab AND every event/expression/filter in the database. If he wants to find instances of "First Time Customer" in text boxes on layouts, I don't have anything to do that right now but it might be worth adding. It wouldn't be terribly difficult. (But RTF boxes - sorry, no can do.)

                      The only downside - depending on how you look at it - is that I will only do a "search and identify" not a "search and replace". I've had too many problems with "search and replace" in the past that resulted in changing things I didn't want to change. And sometimes I didn't know about the problem until after I released the update to the customer(s). Just imagine what a change from "he" to "she" would look like. Tshe result would make a mess of things and I'd shear from all tshe customers asking if I could undo tshe problem tshey created! And, just to be politically correct, yes, at least one of those customers might be a sshe instead of a she.

                      By the way, I've tried the "check every event/filter/expression in every layout manually" and I was never able to be 100% accurate. That, and the fact that doing it manually takes so long, is why I created my App Analyzer and why I use it so often - it finds every match.

                      And one other thing. If you password protect the code in your Code tab (and you should if you are building a generic app), the A5 search won't work - but the App Analyzer will.
                      Last edited by CALocklin; 07-27-2012, 03:28 AM.

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