> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.gradial.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Site Search & Find-and-Replace

> Index your sites and run site-wide content operations — swap brand names, legal phrases, or regulated wording across every page without manual editing.

## Why This Matters

"Do we still say that anywhere?" is one of the hardest questions to answer about a large site, and one of the most consequential. A retired product name, a claim legal no longer approves, an old brand treatment, a regulated phrase that changed — each one is somewhere in the estate, and CMS search generally can't tell you where.

So teams guess. They check the pages they remember, fix those, and hope. Months later the phrase surfaces on a page nobody had opened since 2023.

Site Search indexes your sites so Gradial can answer "what's in it?" exhaustively — and turn that answer into bulk action.

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Site Search indexes your connected sites so Gradial can answer "what's in it?" exhaustively — and turn that answer into bulk action. Once indexed, you can run find-and-replace operations across every locale, every section, and every depth of your sites.

<Note>
  Site Search needs your sites indexed before the steps on this page will return results. Your Gradial team configures and runs the initial index.
</Note>

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## What You Can Do

### Site-Wide Find & Replace

Ask Grady to swap a brand name, product name, legal phrase, or regulated wording across your entire site in plain English:

> "Replace every mention of \[old brand name] with \[new brand name] across all pages."

> "Update the legal disclaimer on every page that references \[product line]."

Gradial searches indexed page snapshots, fans out one task per matched page, edits each on a safe staged copy, and reports results independently — so no single page blocks the others.

### Visual Workflow Mapping

A live graph shows every fan-out task in flight, every page completed, and anything stuck upstream. You can track progress across the full site-wide operation as it runs.

### Human-in-the-Loop Approvals

Workflows pause at QA checkpoints. Nothing ships until brand and compliance sign off. Each page's staged copy is available for review before promotion to live.

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## How It Works

<Steps>
  <Step title="Index your sites">
    Your Gradial team sets up and runs indexing jobs over your connected sites. Site Search results are only available after indexing is complete.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Describe your change">
    In Gradial Chat, describe what you want replaced — the term, phrase, or content type, and any scope constraints such as specific sections, locales, or page types.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Review the matches">
    Gradial surfaces matched pages with paths and titles before taking any action. Confirm the scope looks right before proceeding.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Approve and ship">
    Gradial fans out one task per matched page, edits each on a safe staged copy, and surfaces results for review. Promote to live when you're ready.
  </Step>
</Steps>

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## Getting Started

1. **Connect your sites.** Add your CMS environment from the integrations page if you haven't already — see [Integrations](/docs/integrations-administration-and-setup/integrations/get-started-with-integrations).
2. **Contact your Gradial team** to schedule indexing for your connected sites.
3. **Run your first operation.** Once indexing is complete, describe the change you want in Gradial Chat.

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*Also need to find and act on assets across your DAM? See [Asset Search](/docs/asset-management/asset-search) for brand-matched Asset Packs and visual duplicate detection.*

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## Who this is for

| Role | What Gradial handles |
| :- | :- |
| **Legal / Compliance Reviewer** | A definitive answer to "does this wording still appear anywhere", with the change applied everywhere it does |
| **Brand Manager** | Retired names, old treatments and off-standard phrasing found across the whole estate |
| **Content Ops** | One operation instead of a spreadsheet and a fortnight |
| **Web Producer** | Not opening four hundred pages to change the same six words |
| **Localization Manager** | Coverage confirmed across every locale, not just the ones anyone remembered |

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## Availability

**Access:** Must be enabled for your organization, and your sites must be indexed before you can search them. Contact your Gradial team to get access.


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