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Help in find and replace tool.

shankar12
8 - Asteroid

Hi 

 

I am working on a requirement finding and replacing a field for that attached workflow i tried, the data getting truncated in output and for Null its not returning value.

 

In 1 find and replace tool can we use multiple.

 

Thanks.

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JoshKushner
12 - Quasar

Your replacement is truncating because the field isn't large enough to contain the replacement. This is very common with text tool inputs. If you insert a select tool you can see the PO Indicator field size = 2. Increase the size to handle all replacements. (above 5 should be good, maybe above 1,000 to be safe for any text)

 

Field Size

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ivoller
12 - Quasar

Hi,

 

Truncation is because field sizes are different. For Nulls (or empty fields) you can use a temporary value to use in Find Replace. See attached.

 

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shankar12
8 - Asteroid

tried using select and changed the size to 10000 still its truncating.

 

Thanks

 

shankar12
8 - Asteroid

your workflow results are showing the Ye for yes , i used auto field tool also still same Ye.

 

Thanks.

JoshKushner
12 - Quasar
Did you put the select tool right after your top text input?
JoshKushner
12 - Quasar

This should work

 

Workflow

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Results

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shankar12
8 - Asteroid

Thanks A lot Josh, it worked.

 

Regards

Shankar

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