Find and replace media action
- Updated: 2025/12/15
The Find and replace media action enables you to search for specific images within a Pages document and replace them with new images. This action is useful when updating templates, refreshing branding assets, modifying repeated design elements, or replacing images across multiple pages.
Settings
- Use the Session name field to select one of the following
options:
- Session name: Enter the name of the session used
to open the presentation with the Open
action.
(Optional) Click the Insert a value icon to select an existing variable that you have used to store the default session name.
- Variable: Enter the name of the variable that you have used to store the session name.
- Session name: Enter the name of the session used
to open the presentation with the Open
action.
- In the Media title field, specify the title of the media element to search for in the document.
- Range: Select one of the following options to search for
the specified media:
- Document: Searches the entire document for the image title.
- Specific page(s): Searches for the image title from a specific page or a range of pages. Enter a specific page number r range separated by hyphen, for example 1 or 2-5.
- Replace media: Select one of the following options to select an image
you want to replace with:
- Variable: Enables you to open a file by specifying a file variable.
- Control Room file: Enables you to open a file from the Control Room.
- Desktop file: Enables you to open a file from the device. This field also accepts the file path input as a string variable or global value
- Occurrence: Select which among the following instances of the image
you want to replace:
- All: Replaces every occurrence of the image in the chosen range.
- First: Replaces only the first occurrence found.
- Last: Replaces only the last occurrence found.
- Select the Resize media check box to adjust the size of the replaced image. Specify the Width and Height of the replaced image in centimeters.
- Select the Maintain aspect ratio check box to ensure that the image keeps its original proportions while resizing.
- In the Assign search count to variable field, create or specify the
Number variable to store the number of matching image
elements found during the search.Note: If the search count is zero, it means the specified image was not found in the document.