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nj2
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Apr 7, 2023 6:07 PM UTC
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Search and Replace Text string

Hi All, 

We need to replace a specific text string, such as "Hello World," with "Greetings, Earthlings!" on approximately 2000 pages, text string is part of content fragment, What would be the best approach to accomplish this in AEM?

 

TIA.. 

 

DPrakashRaj
DPrakashRajAccepted solution
Community Advisor
Apr 8, 2023 2:57 AM UTC

There are various ways to accomplish this. You can write a server or script to do this. You can also use groovy script as well as sling pipes. All the above will help you in automation 

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niraj001
Level 2
Apr 7, 2023 9:04 PM UTC

Hi, 

Kindly refer to find and replace here . Also, check out this tool.

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    BrianKasingli
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    BrianKasingliAdobe Champion and Community Advisor
    Adobe Champion and Community Advisor
    Apr 8, 2023 1:02 AM UTC

    I suggest you write a custom servlet to find all content fragments under a specific path where it will find all instances of Hello World, replaces the word with Greetings, Earthlings!, and then it republishes all content fragments if they are already replicated; If content fragments are not yet activated, do nothing. Your servlet should also have a "mode=dry run" mode where it will just return you a list of all affected content fragments before the actually replace. 

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      DPrakashRaj
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      DPrakashRajCommunity AdvisorAccepted solution
      Community Advisor
      Apr 8, 2023 2:57 AM UTC

      There are various ways to accomplish this. You can write a server or script to do this. You can also use groovy script as well as sling pipes. All the above will help you in automation 

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        AEM_PARTY
        Level 2
        Nov 24, 2023 4:55 PM UTC

        Is this not inefficient and a bit dangerous having everyone write a script / servlet that wants what is basic functionality?

         

        I'd like to have search and replace across my library of content fragments but to write it myself seems a bit poor?

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          DPrakashRaj
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          DPrakashRajCommunity Advisor
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          Nov 24, 2023 5:25 PM UTC

          Aem doesn’t provide you any ootb functionality that provides search and replace for the content. Atleast I am not aware of this. If you don’t want to write any type of automation then you can go with something called school way of creating a package of your content fragment and do a search and replace in the package directory after extraction using some ID and then making the package again and deploying it on aem. That’s the non-technical way I can think of without writing any automation (script/servlet)

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