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Subject:

'2 strings inside the document'.
One field that's text or n fields that are text or RT?

Let's assume that the strings live in a single text field in your docs and let's call the field 'myTextField'.
You want to change the string 'my initial string' to 'my new string'.

The agent is as simple as:
FIELD myTextField := @ReplaceSubstring(myTextField;"my initial string";"my new string");

Set the agent to run on all all docs in a view, make sure you have a view containing all the stuff you want to change and then run the agent.

You may have to handle case but this is all pretty simple.

If the field is Rich Text...harder.
If you have 10 fields that need this change, then the code has to handle all 10 fields.
If this is something you need to do more than once with variable strings each time, you'd want to generalize the solution and use @Prompts to get the initial and final substrings (and this is more complex but we'll leave that for a different discussion).

What you do depends on the scope of the problem.

HTH

Feedback response number WEBBAC4NVV created by ~Hank Lopvelutergon on 07/22/2016