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jstour
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July 8, 2021
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Find & Replace within Search Results or Negative Query?

  • July 8, 2021
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RE: Dreamweaver CC 21

Hello community, I hope you can help me with an issue I am having with Dreamweaver Find and Replace.

I do a find and generate a set of pages as my search result.  Now I want to search within these pages for another query.  How can I do that?

 

Alternatively, I could search for a document (not a specific tag) that [contains] x AND [does not contain] xx but I can't see how to do that either only if both parameters are within a specific tag.

 

Any help would be appreciated. 

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    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 8, 2021

    Hi @jstour,

    I suggest you use the Advanced Panel to run your Find query.  If you tell us exactly what you're trying to find and where, maybe we can help you.

     

    OPTIONAL WORKAROUND.

    1. Open your Files Panel (F8) and Ctrl+Click on the first set of result pages to highlight them. 

    2. Run the 2nd Find query on selected files in site.  See screenshot.

     

     

    Hope that helps.

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    B i r n o u
    B i r n o u
    Legend
    July 9, 2021

    hello @Nancy OShea , I'm just curious, how, do you have a relation ship in between the results panel (giving the first result of the first search) AND the files panel to select the appropriate files to launch the second search ?

     

    in my workaround, I select all and right click on the result panel, and ask to open all the files in Dreamweaver... THEN I launch the second search on the opened files...

    B i r n o u
    B i r n o u
    Legend
    July 8, 2021

    Well, welcome to the gang... in fact it's already many years and builds ago that I made the request of this new features that allows to search a new request, in a first search results... without success...


    I also asked to have several panels of results possible... no way...

    so in short... I gave up...

     

    anyway to answer your first question... which consist to launch a new search in a result panel...

    1. close all your documents, launch a first search (Ctrl shift F)
    2. once the results are displayed in the result panel, select all the results, and from a right click, open all the files...
    3. now launch a new search, in the opened files (ctrl shift f)

     

    for your second question, launch a ctrl shif f (find in files) then everything is said in the screenshot, well it's in french but it shouldn't be a problem... isn't it ?

    in case... just let us know

      J
      jstourAuthor
      Participant
      July 9, 2021

      Hi Birnou, thank you so much for your reply.

      1.  So no way to search within a results set without opening all 190 files in the set at the same time.  I tried this but it crashed my computer.  😞   So weird, this feature was in Microsoft Front Page back in 1998 and Adobe still can't get there.

      2.  I tried this method but it didn't yield results.  Let me double check if I got it right.  I want to find all documents that contain "D2130790" but that don't contain "scode".  These are the settings I used.   I manually verified that there were some documents that should return results but when I ran the query none were found.  Did I get it right?  The two parameters are inside two separate input tags.

       

      B i r n o u
      B i r n o u
      Legend
      July 9, 2021

      well, that was another bug report bever corrected... opening too much files in DW or searching in too large files content... crash DW... in the best luck... DW didn't crash... but freeze or hang... 😉

       

      anyway... for the second part, I see that your settings are Not inside Tag... did you try Inside tag [any tag] instead ?

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