Making Edits To Hundreds Of Pages??

I was just given an assignment of editing a few hundred pages and simply adding some links, normally I'd open all the pages in textpad and find and replace but that doesn't' seem to work, I've just started using this software and I was wondering if there were any automation add-on's that would accomplish this, any help pointing me in the right direction would be very helpful!

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moonkhanna

You can have a workflow do this for you and perform the submits and deploys automatically. Alternatively, it can be a simple script run by your Admin,

moonkhanna

Was the above what you were looking for? What is your particular problem? Is it just automation or is it that you are just not able to do so many edits using the interface and you would rather prefer a filesystem interface?

nipper

Well, we need a little more detail than that.

What happens when you click edit on the GUI ? There are a couple of options, either, it downloads the file to your PC and pops up an editor or it was created by a template and opens the TeamSite Templating interface.

Either way that tells you what you need to edit.

The where is on the TS server, however the backingstore is often available over a remote mount.

try getting to this location:

\\TS-SERVER\default

If you can get to that, you can work your way to main\branch\WORKAREA\content (or whatever your path is) and find the files you need to edit, load them into Textpad and roll.

Finally make certain that the files have been submitted to staging before you edit, having a previous version available is a good thing

HTH

Andy

DevBruce

Well, we need a little more detail than that.

What happens when you click edit on the GUI ? There are a couple of options, either, it downloads the file to your PC and pops up an editor or it was created by a template and opens the TeamSite Templating interface.

Either way that tells you what you need to edit.

The where is on the TS server, however the backingstore is often available over a remote mount.

try getting to this location:

\\TS-SERVER\default

If you can get to that, you can work your way to main\branch\WORKAREA\content (or whatever your path is) and find the files you need to edit, load them into Textpad and roll.

Finally make certain that the files have been submitted to staging before you edit, having a previous version available is a good thing

HTH

Andy

Ahhh now there's an idea!

Yeah, see basically there are a few hundreds of pages that need two links updated, they are just two links that were created using the GUI. I pretty much hate any CMS GUI and would much rather just use textpad to make the edits quickly without sitting here for 9 hours clicking on "Edit" for every one.

So, say if i were to find the files, submit them to staging, and then edited them while they were in the staging directory, the edits would stick and they wouldn't be overwritten by the templates?

nipper

So, say if i were to find the files, submit them to staging, and then edited them while they were in the staging directory, the edits would stick and they wouldn't be overwritten by the templates?

no

That is 1st why you need to know what the true source is, either the HTML or a template.

If you edit, you edit in the workarea, but just be certain that it has been submitted to staging, so that when you screw it up, you can get the originals back.

If you are dealing with a template then you will have a path of something like this:

/default/main/branch/WORKAREA/Conten/templatedata/category/type/data/template_file_name

Find the right dir and edit the XML properly and you are good to go.

Finally if you are editing a DCR, make certain the change is UTF-8 encoded. If you put an ampersand in the DCR you will break a lot of things.

moonkhanna

So, say if i were to find the files, submit them to staging, and then edited them while they were in the staging directory, the edits would stick and they wouldn't be overwritten by the templates?

Staging is read only.. you can not edit files there.. Edit your files in the workarea, upload to the workarea and then submit to staging