Finding and Replacing Target Items

To find and replace target items:

  1. From the Translation Applications menu (GH791), select either Senior Translations or Junior Translations, depending on whether you are a senior or junior translator, and then F7920: Resource Text Translations (RTT).

  2. On Work With Resource Text Translation, complete any of these fields and click Find:

    • Selected File Name

    • Status

    • Language

  3. From the Form menu, select Search / Replace.

  4. On Search / Replace, select the Find/Replace tab and complete these fields:

    • Find

    • Replace with

  5. From the Form menu, select one of these options:

    • Next

      The system selects the next item in the detail area.

    • Replace

      The system replaces the current item in the detail area.

    • Replace / Next

      The system replaces the current item and then selects the next item in the detail area.

    • Replace All

      The system replaces all items in the detail area.

    • Previous

      The system selects the previous item in the detail area.

    • Top

      The system selects the uppermost item in the detail area.

You can find and replace these types of text strings:

  • Text strings with other text strings only.

  • Text strings with text strings containing spaces.

  • Text strings with spaces only.

  • Text strings with nulls.

This table illustrates a sample search. One carat (ˆ) equals one space.

Search Text Example

Text String Type

Find Field Text

Replace Field Text

Target Results

*Code*

Other text strings

*Código*

C?dXigo

C?dXigo

*Code*

Text strings containing spaces

Código*

*Cˆˆˆ?digo*

Cˆˆˆ?digo

Code*

One blank

Código*

*ˆC?digo*

ˆC?digo

Code*

More than one blank

Código*

*C?dˆˆˆˆigo*

C?dˆˆˆˆigo

Code*

Null

Código*

*

(blank)