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It will be useful if we have the feature of search/replace facility in the Designer. Things like replacing same transformation for multiple fields will be of great useful. Also replacing column names ....

Will make developers lazy.....


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Rasi

rasi wrote:It will be useful if we have the feature of search/replace facility in the Designer. Things like replacing same transformation for multiple fields will be of great useful. Also replacing column names ....

Will make developers lazy.....


Thanks
Rasi

Part of this capability was added in DS 7.5
You can now in the transformer on derivations perform mass selection and changes using regular expressions.
I'd be interested in how much flexibility you are after with column names - please mail me directly.

Cheers

Steve

It's basically there in the 7.0 release. I haven't had a chance to see what additional features were added in 7.5 as of yet, but it's pretty powerful right now. Right-click on a derivation and select either 'Find/Replace' or 'Derivation Substitution'.

JR Hines wrote a cool routine which I wish he would post called Findjob. It will search in all the jobs for a string like the name of a table. He is now an Ascential employee so maybe they would post it on ADN. It is a very useful solution although a crude being a routine and not a part of the product. He has many developers which use this routine all the time.

I have a routine that does a search-and-replace on stage and link names, plus occurrences of the search token in job parameter default values and in annotations.

This enables generic job designs to be cloned and rapidly made specific.

Siva, is this the kind of thing you're after?

I read that you're interested in changes in Transformer derivation expressions rather that what mine does, but it could easily be tweaked to do what you seek.

I don't think this applies to your exact question/wish, but as an FYI its a lot easier to write a scripts to modify the .xml exports of componts than .dsx and usually easier for just a plain find and replace. Sometimes project wide changes can be easily made form an .xml export and reimport of after modifications

Ray

Post your code. I would like to see it. I think Byron is correct. I think it is safer to global replace in an export. Small changes might be safe too Raay's way.