How to find files including specific words from all files in Pega Robotic 22.1

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I wolud like to know how to find files including specific words from all files in Pega robotic 22.1.

it seems to be able with Pega robotic 19.1 as follows.

1.Press CTL + F.
2.after open “Find and Replace” menu,enter string to find in “Find what:” dialog and select “Entire Solution” in “Look in:” dialog, so press “Find All”.
3.after a search finished,finded files are to be looked in “Find Result” window.

But I don’t know how to do same it in Pega robotic 22.1.

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@ReiA7543
Try using the FindInFiles method below and let me know if you can successfully locate files containing specific keywords.

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Thanks,
Syed

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@ReiA7543There really isn’t a way inside the IDE to search inside each of the Pega files for specific text. You could of course write an automation to do it, but it might be easier to do with something like Notepad++ as it has a Find in files method already. That is what I use currently.

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@ThomasSasnett

Thanks for Your reply.

With Pega Robotic Automation 19.1, it was possible to search strings contained in Automation files in Studio and open the corresponding files from the display of the found parts.
The loss of this function is very inconvenient.
Does it mean that it became 22.1 and downgraded?

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@SYED HUSSAIN SHARIF

I’m sorry.
I don’t want to know how to implement Automation, but there was a function to search the contents of library files such as Automation in Studio as shown below. I’m looking for this function.

＞1.Press CTL + F. 2.after open “Find and Replace” menu,enter string to find in “Find what:” dialog and select “Entire Solution” in “Look in:” dialog, so press “Find All”. 3.after a search finished,finded files are to be looked in “Find Result” window.

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@ReiA7543Since 19.1 was built on top of Visual Studio 2015, it inherited some of that functionality from VS2015. Since Microsoft stopped providing a free version of their IDE that Pega Robotics could work with, the decision was made to build their own IDE. The core functionality of automation development and the enhancement of the developer experience was what was focused on rather than trying to replicate all of the capabilities of Microsoft Visual Studio 2015. If this is a feature you require within the IDE, I would suggest discussing this with your Pega account team as an enhancement to the product.

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@ReiA7543Incidentally, I did see that you can actually do this in PowerShell pretty easily. I know it is still a separate window you’d need to open, but you can easily open a PowerShell to the project folder from Studio in two steps.

  1. Right-click the Project tab in Studio and select “Open folder in File Explorer”.
  2. Right-click an empty area in the folder and select “Open in Terminal”

From the terminal, you can enter the following command and replace your search term;

Select-String -Path “.*” -Pattern “search term” -Recurse