Changing Web tag names

RootsMagic
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Is there a way to do a name change on several web tags at one time. I know you can select each web tag and change the name, but I was hoping there would be something like find/replace/replace all.

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3 dot edit then edit

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Thank you kevync1985.

I have done that for a sometime, but I have about 9,000 to go. I thought there might be a quicker way to make the change. I did chat with someone at RM and they informed me that there was no quick way to do it. (No replace all feature yet for web tags)

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@Lew

Don’t give up just yet … I herewith invoke the name of @RichardOtter and the power of SQLite Tools for RootsMagic.

I betcha Richard has some thoughts on your challenge.

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if you have more than 100. you might want explore external options (likely involving sqlite)
using replace str type functions.
not complicated but not beginner skill

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ha ha…

Lew
I do that exact modification in my maintenance scripts that I run periodically.

It’s a simple SQL command but to automate you have to figure out the pattern of the URL that you want to change the name for.

In one of my cases, if the url is for ancestry and points to a particular tree number, I’ll update the name to be something like “Ancestry tree for [owner name]” etc.

Ae there patterns that you want to follow?

Here are some wexamples-

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