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mfoster711
Regular Contributor
5 years ago

Mass Update Namemap Properties

Is there some method to mass update the properties of namemap fields?   For technical reasons, our development department had to change the ID value associated with tons of fields in our web applic...
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    tristaanogre
    5 years ago

    No built in "Mass update" feature is available across all NameMappings.  At least, not that I'm aware of.

    you CAN edit the XML file but I'm always a bit leary of doing so.

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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
5 years ago

No built in "Mass update" feature is available across all NameMappings.  At least, not that I'm aware of.

you CAN edit the XML file but I'm always a bit leary of doing so.

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    mfoster711
    Regular Contributor
    5 years ago

    Updating the XML directly worked for me. I wrote some code to read the file as a XML object and modified the properties as needed. I am not sure if this would work for every issue, but worked for me since all I needed to do was add "_input" to the end of some property names.