Question

If you change a field in a form, the old data is lost when the topic is saved. I understand that this is how TWIKI behaves. What if we don't want to lose the data, but need to change the field name. Any way to do this besides taking a backup offline and changing the field name programmatically (or something like that)?

Environment

-- TWikiGuest - 29 Nov 2007

Answer

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The form data is stored in the Meta area of the text fileS. It is neither documented nor recommended, but a global search & replace at the file system level MIGHT work...

-- SeanCMorgan - 03 Dec 2007

Look into the GlobalReplacePlugin.

-- PeterThoeny - 02 Feb 2008