Find and Replace
Metadata
Description
The Find and Replace plugin is a powerful tool for quickly and efficiently updating the descriptive metadata of multiple records at once. Whether you need to make a global change to your metadata or simply correct a typo, this plugin can help you save time and improve the consistency and accuracy of your metadata. With the Find and Replace plugin, you can select all records or a specific set of records in search and replace the content of descriptive metadata attributes. You can choose to replace the entire attribute or search for specific words or phrases to replace. Advanced users can also use regular expressions to match on the content of an attribute, extract groups, and use them in the replacement text. The plugin is highly customizable and flexible, allowing you to fine-tune your search and replace operations to match your specific needs. You can choose to replace all instances of a word or phrase or only those that meet certain criteria, such as occurring in specific fields or having a certain value.
Categories
management maintenance
Parameters
| Name | Description | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Metadata field | Select the metadata field that you want to do a find and replace action. If you want to select multiple metadata fields, you will need to execute the action multiple times. | DROPDOWN Optional |
| Find (Optional) | The text to find in the selected metadata field. If the text is found it will be replaced by the replacement text defined below. If this option is empty, i.e. no find text is set, then the whole text of the metadata field will be selected. | STRING Mandatory |
| Replace (Optional) | The text to replace the field with. If find text is set, only that text will be replaced by this replacement text. If no find text is set, the whole text will be replaced with this replacement text. If the replacement text is empty, then the found text will be deleted from the metadata field. | STRING Mandatory |
| Match case | If the find should be case sensitive. If selected it will make a distinction between uppercase and lowercase (e.g. ‘A’ and ‘a’). If not selected, then the find text will not make a distinction, so when searching for ‘Text’, it will also match with ‘text’. | BOOLEAN Mandatory |
| Match using regular expressions | Use search patterns to match text, extract parts of the text and rearrange it in the replacement text using regular expressions. You can use boolean operators, quantification operators and wildcards. You can also use “capture groups” with parenthesis that can be used to extract parts of the text and use them in the “Replace” text. For example, Find: “.?([0-9]+).?”, Replace: “number: $1” will extract positive integer numbers from the metadata field and replace it with the text “number: “ and the first extracted number. Further documentation on regular expressions is available on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression and https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#regexs | BOOLEAN Mandatory |
| Practice run (for testing) | Test the find and replace action but don’t actually change the metadata. The find and replace action will be evaluated and the changes it would do will be presented in the process report. | BOOLEAN Mandatory |
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