LibGuides search function for updating content?

[Langlois, Rachel]

Mary,

We are on LibGuides version 2. I still have a master guide with templates/widgets I reuse like others have mentioned. But, we recently updated our catalog which required changing the URL. In the new version of LibGuides, the search and replace took care of exactly what you are wanting. I employed the search, found over 600 instances the old URL was being used, no matter how, whether it was a widget, straight code, a book, link, anyplace that we used it, and was successful in changing it to the new URL, seamlessly, no matter where or how it was used.
Seriously wicked kewl.

Best,
Rachel Langlois
http://nhcpl.libguides.com



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On Jul 30, 2014, at 20:08, "Teresa Ashley" <libr12 at GMAIL.COM<mailto:libr12 at GMAIL.COM>> wrote:

Mary,

We are on version 1 of Libguides.  We have two master boxes to which all guides link (reuse box).  One of them is a Get Help! box and the other is a widget to search the library catalog.  Whenever the master box is changed, the other reused boxes are automatically updated.  Of course, you might not have planned on having a WorldCat master box, which would have been necessary if you were going to have the master box update the others.

I am looking forward to seeing the changes in version 2 of Libguides.

Teresa AShley





Rachel Langlois | Virtual Services Librarian

Library - Main - Technical Services | New Hanover County

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Wilmington, NC 28401

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On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Brunelle, Mary H. (Library) <mbrunelle at assumption.edu<mailto:mbrunelle at assumption.edu>> wrote:
Hello:

Does anyone have a good way of searching LibGuides for finding content that needs to be updated?  We know about the search and replace function, but that works best for direct 1-to-1 changes.  This does not always work for us.  For example, we need to find every guide that has the old WorldCat Local search box code, in order to replace it with our new WorldCat Discovery search box code.  It is not going to be a simple search and replace job.  Another example would be when we phase out a particular service; we simply want to find the guides that feature that service and delete the content, not replace it with anything.

I am experimenting with Google’s Advanced Search and limiting to our LibGuides site.  But I fear this is not necessarily exhaustive, and I do not think this would work for finding snippets of code on the back-end.

How do you stay on top of changes to LibGuide content?

Thank you.

Mary Brunelle
Assumption College
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