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Among hundreds of workflows, how do I find all workflows that contain a specific value?

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Updated March 2, 2018

asked on March 2, 2018

We have several hundred workflows. We are looking for a specific value in them - an email address. How do we find them without opening all of them in WF Designer and doing Edit > Find? Is there a "server-side" search? Or do I have to run a query on the WF database?

Better yet, is there a "find and replace" feature?

Workflow 10.2

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Not sure how "supported" it is but I have exported workflows before, opened the xml in notepad, and then do a find/replace there and re-import. Since there does not seem to be a find/replace feature it was either do that or literally days of clicking and changing. This goes for multiple since when you export multiple workflows, dont have the box checked to make them their own file.

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replied on March 2, 2018

OK, I was afraid of that. Thanks Chris!

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If all of the workflows are sending email to that email address you're looking for, you could narrow down your search by looking at the email server in the Workflow Administration Console, and seeing which workflows are using that email server.

https://www.laserfiche.com/support/webhelp/Laserfiche/10/en-US/administration/#../Subsystems/LFWorkflow/Content/Resources/Admin Console/E-mail Node.htm

If it's an internal email, and you're in charge of the email server, there might be a way to get the email server Workflow is using to automatically reject a connection if an attempt is made to send to that specific email address. Then you'd see all the relevant workflows throw errors.

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