Bulk resolve conflicts

Question

I have a test project that has multiple people with write permission (a bit of a free-for-all), and after two people created some new new books in parallel I have thousands of conflicts. Is there any way to resolve them all in bulk?

Answer 1

The available option is to “Delete all conflict notes”. You get to this in PT9 by holding Shift while clicking on the main menu. Then go to “Support and Development > Delete all conflict notes”

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Answer 2

That did the trick. Thanks, anon848905.

Note that you have to have the correct project selected first, before going to the main menu. I thought we didn’t have to do that anymore! Maybe it should be moved to the Advanced sub-menu in the Project menu. It looks like there are some additional options in that menu if you hold down Shift, so maybe it could be added there.

Answer 3

Thanks @anon848905 for posting this. I knew there was a way to do it, but for the life of me, I couldn’t find it anywhere in PT9. I even searched the technical help, but couldn’t get anywhere with that. Surely we should include this in that (offline) help as well.

Answer 4

Just as a reminder - if you can’t find something in Paratext 9 you can use the search box at the top. Notice here that I just typed “conflic” and the window displays several commands including the “Delete all Conflict notes”. Now I may not know that to get to the Support and Development menu I have to hold Shift while clicking the main menu, but I don’t need that since I can just click the link to go to the command.

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As for getting this into the help files - I believe you are correct that it should be there. I’ll make the request.

Answer 5

Yes, that’s where I was looking, but in vain. I can now see that because I typed too much (i.e. the plural form = ‘conflicts’) it didn’t find what I was looking for:

I’m wondering whether we should intentionally add key words (sg., pl. forms and synonyms) to help articles in order to make these kinds of “no match searches” less likely.