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Global change - Activty ID

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Sun, 2007-07-15 11:19
Naveen Subbaiah
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Hello people,

Can somebody suggest a method to change the first 4 characters in an activity ID using global change ? I am using P3e 4.1

Thanx in advance
Naveen
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Tue, 2007-07-17 09:34
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David Forrest
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Select the first activity ID, Select Edit-Replace and type in the characters that you wish to change.
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Mon, 2007-07-16 04:09
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Dieter Wambach
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Hi Naveen
after you extracted the not used values, try

activity id = "abcd" & activity id to add the prefix "abcd"

How to enter "abcd"?
You click on custom in the selection window. Now you may enter any string.

Regards

Dieter
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Mon, 2007-07-16 01:29
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Naveen Subbaiah
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Hi Dieter,

Thanx 4 ur response. The substring funtion is helping me only in extracting the characters from the activty ID & not changing it. For exapmple, my activity ID’s are such as UTII-WWTC-0025, UTII-FG-0010 etc., Now in all these, I want to change UTII to UT2. The substring function is only extracting the first four character UTII !!

Regards
Naveen
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Sun, 2007-07-15 16:37
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Dieter Wambach
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Hi Naveen,
you can use the substring function of global change. It’s well described in the Help-Function - search, then enter "substring". But I’m not sure if this parameter already existed in 4.1.
Regards

Dieter
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