Find and Replace Error Messages

Find and Replace will display one of the following errors messages if it cannot replace a text string:

File in Use

This alert message appears if the database or file that is necessary for writing to has become unavailable. This may be the case if the database/file is being used by a third-party application.

Do one of the following:

• Click Try Again (Default) to repeat the operation on the database/file.

• Click Ignore to skip the operation on this file.

• Click Ignore All button to skip any operations on files that are currently in use; this option causes this message not to reappear.

Replaced Text Truncated

This alert message appears if performing the text replacement in a DBF field exceeds the field width limits. For example, if an Engineering Units field containing % is replaced with "%LONGTEXTSTRING", a "replaced text truncated" alert message appears because this field has a max width of 8. The replacement text would therefore be "%LONGTEX".

This alert message does not occur if searching the current graphics page.

Do one of the following:

• Click Yes to commit the truncated text to the database. Usually this will generate a compilation alert message when the project is compiled.

• Click Yes to All to commit every change to fields regardless if truncation exists without displaying the alert again.

• Click No (default) to leave the text as is.

• Click No to All button to leave truncated fields as is.

Original Text Not Found

This alert message appears when attempting to replace an item on the current graphics page when the animation could not be found or the text could not be found. This would occur if the animation was deleted, or if the text found in an animation's field was changed after the find but before replacing the item.

In the example below, the Fill Level Maximum contained a value of 23, and the search text was 23. Before replacing the record, it was changed to 66.

Do one of the following:

• Click Ignore to skip this operation, leave the entry in the list, and move on to the next replacement if it exists.

• Clicking Ignore All acts like the Ignore button, except that it skips all occurrences.

• Click Stop to stop the replacement at the current record.

Replaced Text Out of Range

This alert message appears when carrying out a replacement on the current graphics page in two different circumstances:

1. The field is text and is too long for the allowable field width.

2. The field is a numeric field, and would be out of the allowable range for a replacement value.

In the example below, the Fill Level Maximum allows a range or 0-100, and the value was 23 and is being replaced with 101, which would be out of range.

Do one of the following:

• Click Ignore to skip this operation, leave the entry in the list, and move on to the next replacement if one exists.

• Clicking Ignore All acts like the Ignore button, except that it skips all occurrences.

• Click Stop to stop the replacement at the current record.

Replacement Text Not Numeric

This alert message will appear when carrying out a replacement on the current graphics page when the field being replaced is a numeric field, and the replacement text contains a non-numeric value.

In the example below, the Fill Level Maximum contained a value of `23', and the replacement text was `fred'.

Do one of the following:

• Click Ignore to skip this operation, leave the entry in the list, and move on to the next replacement if it exists.

• Clicking Ignore All acts like the Ignore button, except that it skips all occurrences.

• Click Stop to stop the replacement at the current record.

Field is Read-only

This alert message appears when replacing an item on the current graphics page when the field being replaced is part of a linked object like a Genie or template.

In the example below, the Expression field was part of an object that was part of a genie.

Do one of the following:

• Click Ignore to skip this operation, leave the entry in the list, and move on to the next replacement if it exists.

• Clicking Ignore All acts like the Ignore button, except that it skips all occurrences.

• Click Stop to stop the replacement at the current record.

Undetermined error

This alert message appears when carrying out a replacement on the current graphics page when a general error is detected, and not happen in normal operation.

Do one of the following:

• Click Ignore to skip this operation, leave the entry in the list, and move on to the next replacement if it exists.

• Clicking Ignore All acts like the Ignore button, except that it skips all occurrences.

• Click Stop to stop the replacement at the current record.