Hello, We have three 10 year old databases where users self-register to gain access to the DB and fill out some forms that others eventually review.
When users return to the DB to logon and type in incorrect passwords, user names, or email addresses, a page appears telling them to contact the person who desgined the database. That person is no longer working here. I want to change the contact info so the Helpdesk phone number and web page are listed.
I have found some areas in the template and database where this information is listed and I have changed it. However, different errors generate different pages with the person’s name and contact info. I cannot find every location in designer where the person’s name is listed to change it. I am unable to find a search feature in Designer to find the person’s name. The Find option in the Edit Menu is greyed out. Any suggestions? As you may have already figured out, I’m a Sys Admin, not a programmer.
Use the synopsis tool to generate a syopsis of All design elements in the database. This will come back as a single page containing all code (well, except for JavaScript script libraries…) and then you can do a search for the person’s name within that code. After finding it, you will need to scroll up to see which design element that actually is, but you should be able to locate all instances of that person’s name.
Configurator would definitely be the most comfortable tool to use, as it can do a global search and replace on all design and data notes of a database. But it’s not cheap.
Cesar, you are a brave heart if you stand using the Design Synopsis. I plain hate it. But well, it’s free, and it will probably do the job.
I would prefer to use DDSearch from the Sandbox. It comes at no cost as well, it can search design and documents, it will list all elements containing the string you searched for, it displays the context of the found string and you can double click on any result to open it in the appropriate way.
Downs: Requires a little registry tweaking to get it install on Notes 7 (do a search on this forum to find the details), not well suited to large production databases (as the whole database is exported to XML), window becomes unaccessible at times, until you close the Notes property dialog.
Unfortunately, Configurator is not an option for me (I used it previously at another employer and would vouch for it too). As it is, I have to be brave and use synopsis - arggghhh because it is free. I’ll check sandbox though - may be useful.
Same here. DDSearch is written by IBMer Thomas Gumz and has been of great value for me.
Thomas has given instructions on how to install DDSearch 2.1 on Notes 7 in some blog response, but it’s a little hard to find via Google. Here is a summary that I had posted a couple of days ago:
I also advise using DDSearch if you don’t want to spend a bucket of money :-).A tip: only create an index with DDSearch on templates, not on production databases. If you have a lot of data, DDSearch won’t be able to index it all without problems.
So do you search in design elements in the template.