Find and replace in glossaries

[Jessa]

I have a huge glossary and I would like to edit it using Find and Replace. Or even Finding and then pasting text.
You can do a Find and Replace in a glossary and it looks like it's doing something ... only it doesn't do anything. The found text is never replaced. It's bizarre. I ran through the whole glossary three times before I realized that it wasn't replacing any text at all.

Tips? Tricks? Steps?

This glossary is enormous with at least four versions of the essentially the same term. When I modify one of them, I want to modify all of them. I can't find a way to do it.

[DurtyMat]

Open the glossary in the internal text editor (right click the glossary file) then open the Find and Replace pane. Search for the exact definition (which should be between <definition> </definition> tags) and replace it that way. That should rip through your glossary fairly quickly the changes you make should be applied.

I tested it in the MadCap provided glossary and didn't run into any issues.

[LTinker68]

Are you talking about a single glossary file, or are you merging projects and you're getting duplications in the glossary because of that? The reason I ask is because Flare normally gives you an error if you enter a glossary term that already exists in the same glossary file.

[Jessa]

Are you talking about a single glossary file, or are you merging projects and you're getting duplications in the glossary because of that? The reason I ask is because Flare normally gives you an error if you enter a glossary term that already exists in the same glossary file.

I'm talking about a single glossary file.

[Jessa]

Open the glossary in the internal text editor (right click the glossary file) then open the Find and Replace pane. Search for the exact definition (which should be between <definition> </definition> tags) and replace it that way. That should rip through your glossary fairly quickly the changes you make should be applied.

I tested it in the MadCap provided glossary and didn't run into any issues.

Nice! Trying to find the found text is a little trick for me in all that code, but it works. Thank you!!
I have already wasted too much time trying to edit these one at a time.

[DurtyMat]

glad it worked.