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Is there a way to mass change the Source Paths from the Readers in multiple Workbenches at once or do i need to open every Workbench and need to change it manually?
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Change Source from multiple Workbenches
Best answer by nielsgerrits
An alternative is to read workbenches as text, use a StringReplacer to replace the full path. It is hacky, and probably not supported, so use at your own risk. (Backup your workspaces!)
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An alternative is to read workbenches as text, use a StringReplacer to replace the full path. It is hacky, and probably not supported, so use at your own risk. (Backup your workspaces!)
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I support @nielsgerrits's solution.
Read as text, look for
SourceDatasetYour path will be between quotation marks. Do a little transforming on the data, make sure you preserve the line order and write back as text.
Another solution would be reading as fmw (supported) but writing is trickier, writing as xml should work but I never figured it out.
nielsgerrits wrote:
An alternative is to read workbenches as text, use a StringReplacer to replace the full path. It is hacky, and probably not supported, so use at your own risk. (Backup your workspaces!)
I agree about this. I think the key to this working is to make sure that the substring to look for and replace must be completely unique, i.e. no risk of accidentally replacing some other but similar substring.
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Hi. I made this my Question of the Week because I thought it was so interesting. You can find a video demo of my thoughts here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjZRcyYuOjU&t=1611s
In short - I'm not going to say don't use the StringReplacer, but the official solution I think would be to use relative paths, which you'd have to set up beforehand. The video shows how.
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