Show number of replacements performed

After performing a Find&Replace operation with "Replace All", I'd love to see a pop-up box with information on how many replacements were made.

MS Word does this, and it would be very helpful to have this info in Studio too.

Microsoft Word information pop-up showing 'All done. We made 15 replacements.' with an OK button.

I mentioned this idea 4 years ago on another SDL community forum and it was logged as Enhancement report LTE-296. Unfortunately, the enhancement hasn't been implemented, so I'm adding it as an idea here.

Emma Goldsmith

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Emma Goldsmith 4 months ago

Such a shame this hasn't been implemented yet. I first suggested it in 2016 and again here in 2020. I suppose it's too tricky to do?
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Alison Field 4 months ago in reply to Emma Goldsmith

Emma Goldsmith

Hi Emma,

So it's been over 8 years since it was suggested and it only has 9 votes and that includes you and me. Maybe it's just too hard to program in...

All the best!

Ali
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Philippe Riondel 4 months ago in reply to Alison Field

It is not because we did not formally support this proposal here that it is useless or not relevant.
I wish this option exists almost each time I perform a search and replace, and larger the replacement is, more I wish it. Among other things, it allows to know the number occurrences of any given chain or word.
And I'm pretty sure implementing a counter would not be a big deal.
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Alison Field 4 months ago in reply to Alison Field

PS: That doesn't read how I meant it...

Firstly, it hasn't received many votes, which surprised me.

Secondly, it may well be really difficult to program it into such complex existing layers of interface...

I wasn't being sarcastic, honestly!
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Philippe Riondel 4 months ago in reply to Alison Field

Alison, any person who has already programmed, even in VBA, knows that implementing a counter is easy. It is just adding a numeric variable and an instruction to increment it at each execution of the loop that browse the texte and performs the replacements, then adding a message box with the result. It would not take more than a couple of hours, including testing.
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Alison Field 4 months ago in reply to Philippe Riondel

Philippe Riondel

Hi Philippe, I've never programmed, I'm happy to say.

Amitiés,

Ali
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