"Content Administration ->Multiple Property Replacement" not working

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am trying to change the value of a the property with ID "SupportedUserAgents" in all the iViews in my folder. I followed as it is stated in <http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/44/ccf6bf687f3b9ae10000000a1553f6/content.htm> and changed the value of the property and the final report says that all the matches were replaced successfuly without any errors. But when I go back to any of the iViews and see the value of the property "SupportedUserAgents" I realise that the replacement did not happen. Am I missing something here?

I want to add some more info to this. The value of the property "SupportedUserAgents" should be selected from a dropdown and the dropdown contains these values

1) (MSIE, >=5.5, *) (Netscape, *, *) (Mozilla, *, *)

2) (MSIE, >=5.5, *)

3) (Netscape, *, *) (Mozilla, *, *)

Now as stated in the above link, I am trying to replace the value of the property "SupportedUserAgents" to (,,*) which is not there in the dropdown list (the above 3 values). So is it correct to do it in for dropdown fields?

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[Former Member · Accepted solution]

any ideas ?

[Dan_Wroblewski · Accepted solution]

Hi SAP Fanatic,

(1) Do you want to change the value in the dropdown box, or the actual value? I can change the actual value, but it will not appear in the dropdown -- -- Select – will appear (indicating no value) but in fact the value has been changed, which you can see in the PCD inspector.

(2) I used the Multiple Property tool also. Are you changing the value by putting in the value and changing it to a new value, or are you specifying the property ID and a new value? I did the second.

Daniel

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[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Daniel, You are right the changed value is not appearing in the dropdown (when i see in the iView properties). I used the PCD Inspector and found that the values is indeed being changed. Thanks for your response.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Use PCD Inspector to check if the value is changed or not. Hope this helps.

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[Former Member]

I found a workaround which does not use the "Multiple Property Replacement tool". We can go to and add a property named "SupportedUserAgents" with value "(,,*) in all the component profiles(portalapp.xml) for all the components

But I am looking out for a more easy way to solve this issue. Any ideas are welcome.

[Former Member]

Just add some more info, I tried to replace the value of the property with one of the existing values in the dropdown and its working fine eg: (MSIE, >=5.5, ). So can't we replace it with a value like (,,) which is not there in the dropdown..then does that mean help.sap was wrong(which asks to replace the value with (,,*)) or am I missing something here.

help.sap link - <http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/44/ccf6bf687f3b9ae10000000a1553f6/content.htm>

Regards.