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Lightnin Dave
Lightnin Dave
Participating Frequently
November 11, 2016
Answered

DW 2017 save/export search results

Liking DW 2017 so far, but the ability to save/export the search results (to xml) seems to have gone.

Is it still there but hidden where I can't find it?

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Niharika Jha
Niharika JhaCorrect answer
Adobe Employee
May 5, 2017

Hi,

Can you please confirm if you are wanting to save the  search query or search results which are displayed in the search panel?

As per the new update of Dw CC 17.1, you can now save and load search queries.

We have added registry entries to enable Save and Load Query options. Please follow the steps as below-

  1. Download and install Dreamweaver CC 2017.1.
  2. Close Dreamweaver is you're running it currently.
  3. Depending on your operating system, do one of the following:
    1. On Windows:
      1. Open regedit
      2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Dreamweaver CC 2017\Advanced Find And Replace
      3. Add a string value “ShowHiddenOptions=TRUE”
      4. Close regedit
    2. On Mac:
      1. Use finder to navigate to ~/Library/Preferences
      2. Open Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2017 Prefs using a text editor
      3. Find “[Advanced Find and Replace]” section and add "showhiddenoptions=TRUE"
      4. Save and close the file

     4. Relaunch Dreamweaver

Note- If you still can't find the folder in the registry, try clearing preferences.

Regards,

Niharika Gupta

Adobe Dreamweaver

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quayfee
Participant
August 6, 2018

Any news on this? I find it highly frustrating that you can't export the results of a search

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Kratika Agarwal
Participating Frequently
August 7, 2018

Hi,

We are happy to announce that we have addressed the older functionality of Save and Load query in Find and Replace dialog in latest Prerelease drop.

Please go to the link Adobe Prerelease and install the latest build 11137.

https://forums.adobeprerelease.com/dwalpha/discussion/365/dw-latest-build-11137-is-availab le

Thanks

Kratika

Dreamweaver Team

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rickp60729895
rickp60729895
Participant
October 9, 2018

The request is not to Save and Load queries. The request is to save or export the search results. The original issue/request of this thread is still open.

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    Lightnin Dave
    Lightnin DaveAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    February 27, 2018

    I nipped over to bug report / feature request to have my say.

    Niharika Gupta has reported that it is now in backlog, so hopefully, it'll be back.

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      ninalove1
      ninalove1
      Participant
      February 26, 2018

      I join the crowd as needing the feature to save/export the RESULTS of a search query. CSV would be ideal, but if I could even save it as XML as I've done for years in previous DW versions, that would be satisfactory. Add me to the list of requesters and thank you.

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        B i r n o u
        B i r n o u
        Legend
        February 27, 2018

        if no one really add his voice to the FR... there is no chance that the popularity of the request inquires... so please directly add your voice ...

        Adobe Prerelease

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          scottl96952714
          Participant
          December 7, 2017

          I would just use Notepad++.  Its free and can do just that.

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          B i r n o u
          B i r n o u
          Legend
          December 8, 2017

          when saving results, there are two main points that are interesting and that Note Pad++ can't handle neither help on...

          1. having the results on an XML format... not on plain tabuled text
          2. being able to load back the results once exported

          and a third point is I'm curious how you save the results in NotePad++

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          scottl96952714
          Participant
          December 12, 2017

          Getting ANY results that one can cut and paste is better than what DW offers--no ability to copy the results.

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          HutchisonMichael
          Participant
          June 19, 2017

          First, I think you should remove the "correct answer" because it's clearly the wrong answer.  Lightin Dave was clearly wanting to save the results.

          I want that feature back, too.  I use it a lot.  It is a little cumbersome in XML format (what I'd really love is to save the results as text or Comma-separated Values (CSV)), but as it was the only format offered I'd spend a little time stripping out the XML and then transforming it into CSV so that I could open it as an Excel file.  Again: even the ability to save it as plain ol' text would be appreciated.

          In case you need to argue for why it's needed, picture this:

          You are searching for a term, or a bit of code, across an entire website of thousands of files, and you get back hundreds if not thousands of results.  You need to be able to show your team the problem in a hard copy that you can sort and re-sort.  You need to be able to work on these one-by-one in some cases, or maybe even assign chunks of these search results to different team members, and then check them off as you finish.  You want to be able to send your boss an Excel file of the hundreds of pages you fixed.

          You NEED to be able to save the search results.

          If you don't have a way to restore this feature, I'll have to just take screenshots of the results and work from those, which is far less useful but about the only option open to me.

          So, yes, please bring up the restoration of the save feature...and if at all possible, look into other formats for saving the results.  I can't imagine this isn't a feature used by many organizations.

          Note:  I'm also submitting this to the Feature Requests form.

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            Niharika Jha
            Adobe Employee
            Niharika Jha
            Adobe Employee
            June 20, 2017

            Hi,

            Thanks for the detailed feedback.

            We had already raised this as a story to be picked up in further Dw releases, and we are working on it. That is why we closed this thread as Correct Answer.

            I have also added your usecase in that story.

            Regards,

            Niharika Gupta

            Adobe Dreamweaver

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            Mugstomer
            Mugstomer
            Participant
            October 31, 2017

            Just to illustrate the need for this feature, I searched a site for all instances of :// using "Find and Replace in Files..." in order to identify URLs we need to allow for a server's content-security-policy header.

            There are 4646 results and I thought I'd be able to export them in order to run through a script to get rid of links, duplicates etc.

            Looks like I'll have to use grep for the time being :/

            If you do restore this feature, it would also be very useful to be able to get the results as CSV rather than XML.

            Thanks,

            Jon

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              Lightnin Dave
              Lightnin DaveAuthor
              Participating Frequently
              May 5, 2017

              Hi Niharika, thanks for your reply.

              It was the results that I was looking for. It used to be quite useful every now and then to save the results as an xml file which DM offered.

              Still using DM but now I use Sublime Text to do this.

              Cheers

              David

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                Niharika Jha
                Adobe Employee
                Niharika Jha
                Adobe Employee
                May 6, 2017

                Hi,

                Thanks for your feedback, we will surely raise this with the team.

                Regards,

                Niharika Gupta

                Adobe Dreamweaver

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                  Niharika Jha
                  Adobe Employee
                  Niharika JhaCorrect answer
                  Adobe Employee
                  May 5, 2017

                  Hi,

                  Can you please confirm if you are wanting to save the  search query or search results which are displayed in the search panel?

                  As per the new update of Dw CC 17.1, you can now save and load search queries.

                  We have added registry entries to enable Save and Load Query options. Please follow the steps as below-

                  1. Download and install Dreamweaver CC 2017.1.
                  2. Close Dreamweaver is you're running it currently.
                  3. Depending on your operating system, do one of the following:
                    1. On Windows:
                      1. Open regedit
                      2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Dreamweaver CC 2017\Advanced Find And Replace
                      3. Add a string value “ShowHiddenOptions=TRUE”
                      4. Close regedit
                    2. On Mac:
                      1. Use finder to navigate to ~/Library/Preferences
                      2. Open Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2017 Prefs using a text editor
                      3. Find “[Advanced Find and Replace]” section and add "showhiddenoptions=TRUE"
                      4. Save and close the file

                       4. Relaunch Dreamweaver

                  Note- If you still can't find the folder in the registry, try clearing preferences.

                  Regards,

                  Niharika Gupta

                  Adobe Dreamweaver

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                  Preran
                  Preran
                  Legend
                  November 14, 2016

                  This feature has been removed from the latest version. If you think it is important to your workflow, place a request to the team directly using Feature Request/Bug Report Form

                  Thanks,

                  Preran

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                  associateddata
                  associateddata
                  Participant
                  November 3, 2017

                  I am very disgruntled.  I had to update adobe because I could not get support for X Pro anymore.  I wanted to be able to add the add-in to my outlook to export email messages from MS Office 2016.  COULDN'T DO IT  without having to upgrade.  So I paid to upgrade to Adobe 2017 and the very tool I need, which is to save my searches to a new portfolio, is not longer available.  I don't know what you people are thinking.  I have wasted my time and money on this and now have to explain to my client that we can no longer perform this exercise on his HUGE case coming to trial.

                  YOU NEED TO FIX IT AND FIX IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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                  Jon Fritz
                  Community Expert
                  Jon FritzCommunity Expert
                  Community Expert
                  November 3, 2017

                  I'm not sure what software you're talking about.

                  You have posted to an unrelated, answered thread in the Dreamweaver user-to-user forum, not Adobe Customer Care. If you have a Dreamweaver issue, you should start a new thread here Dreamweaver support forum with all of the pertinent information (OS, version, error messages, etc).

                  If you have an issue with some other software from Adobe, make sure to write a post in that software's forum and one of the contributors there should be able to help you.

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