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Find & Replace in Rise 360?
Not sure if this tip has been shared yet, but I recently had a big "Find / Replace" need in Rise. What helped me was to publish the course to PDF and then do a "Find" within the PDF and "Replace" in Rise.
Hello EllenBurggraf​.
Thanks for sharing your workaround! I can definitely see how publishing your course to a PDF to search for text, then manually making those updates back in Rise, could become time-consuming, especially when you're working with larger courses.
I'd love to learn a little more so I can share additional context with our Product team:
- How often do you find yourself needing to update text across an entire Rise course?
- What kinds of updates are you typically making, such as terminology changes, branding updates, or correcting repeated content?
- If Rise had a built-in Find & Replace feature, what would your ideal workflow look like?
Thanks again for taking the time to share your experience and your workaround. The additional context will help us better understand how this capability could improve your authoring workflow.
Hi Luciana, I agree with many in this post that the 'find and replace' feature is very needed. To help you and the Product team, here are my response to your questions:
- I need to update text across an entire Rise course very frequently as our courses often go through multiple review cycles involving SMEs, brand updates, and stakeholder feedback. It's common to need course-wide text updates several times during development and again after publication when policies, terminology or requirements change. At the moment, I use the Search function and then have to Ctrl+F again while on the lesson page to identify each instance for replacing.
- Some common updates include terminology changes, stylistic changes such as changing Arabic numbers to words, double quotation marks to single quotation, branding updates such as names of clients or people we refer to in the course, correcting repeated content errors or typos that exist in multiple lessons, updating links, call-to-action text or references to documents and processes. Manually locating each instance is time-consuming and introduces the risk of missing bits.
- My ideal workflow would be to open a course-level Find & Replace panel, search for a word or phrase across the entire course, view all matches in a results list showing: lesson name, block type (if possilbe), a preview of the surrounding text, then I can choose to replace individual instances, selected instances, or all instances across the course. Ideally there will be options for match case, whole words only, and to be able to search within lesson titles, button labels and interactions. However saying this, a simple version of find and replace would be super beneficial already.
Thank you for your time reviewing our feedback on this much needed feature 😊
I agree with everything angela10230 mentioned below! (Especially, "...a simple version of find and replace would be super beneficial already.")
