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mneiferbag
Contributor
9 years ago

How to search and replace in all requests in a project?

Hi, is there any way to do a search and replace in all requests in a project?   We have a URL in all requests of our project and I have to change that. I know that I could edit the project file in ...
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CByler's avatar
CByler
Contributor
9 years ago

You can open the project xml, and do a find/replace in there.  Close the project, replace, reopen :)

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    mneiferbag
    Contributor
    9 years ago
    CByler wrote:

    You can open the project xml, and do a find/replace in there.  Close the project, replace, reopen :)

    Thanks for your reply. I find this a bit ugly, though. It's a bit like unzipping and opening a docx in a text editor and do a replace on the xml. :smileyhappy:

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      PhilK
      New Contributor
      9 years ago

      You could use properties (eg. at Project level). Setup Request fields to use properties, then when a property changes (eg. URL, password, etc) simply change the property, and all requests will pick up that new value. Phil.

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        mneiferbag
        Contributor
        9 years ago

        Hi Phil,

        PhilK wrote:

        You could use properties (eg. at Project level). Setup Request fields to use properties, then when a property changes (eg. URL, password, etc) simply change the property, and all requests will pick up that new value. Phil.

         Yes. This is a way to avoid the need to search and replace. However, there are times when I don't know in advance what request fields are static and what fields will change. For simplicity, I'm trying to avoid using properties for all fields.