Text/regex when creating links from bookmarks

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Mathew
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Text/regex when creating links from bookmarks

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The "Create Links from Bookmarks" is a fantastic tool - my request is to be able to refine the search criteria for the bookmark text. Typically my bookmarks on drawings will be in the form [Sheet Number] [Sheet Name] thus:
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But I need to add links to the sheets based on just the sheet number that's scattered all over pages:
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If there were a way to list the bookmarks and assign custom search criteria, or do a general regex/split on the bookmarks (ie for my case it would be ^[A-Z ]+[0-9.]+) to get the search term for looking on the drawing?

There's a current workaround that I use: export all the bookmarks, do a find and replace on them to rename them all to just the sheet number, then do the links, then delete the bookmarks and re-import them. Just a lot of messing around for something that feels like it could be done programmatically.
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Re: Text/regex when creating links from bookmarks

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Hello, Mathew

At the moment there is no way, but I did get approval to make a feature request for this item:

RT#6728: FR: Allow regex interpretation of bookmark text for "create links from bookmarks

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Dan McIntyre - Support Technician
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Re: Text/regex when creating links from bookmarks

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Text/regex when creating links from bookmarks

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:)
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