Find and Replace will display one of the following errors messages if it cannot replace a text string:
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.
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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.
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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.
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This alert message appears when carrying out a replacement on the current graphics page in two different circumstances:
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.
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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Published June 2018