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Global Edit Form

This form is displayed when you right-click a column heading (representing a record's field) on the Edit File (...) Form's grid (as distinct from right-clicking a line in the grid) and you select Global Edit from the context menu.

It enables you to update ALL records matching your filter criteria with new data.

Editing details:

Field name: Descriptor corresponding to the field/column's top header row on the Edit File (...) form's grid

Description: Program's field identifier corresponding to the field/column's second header row on the Edit File (...) form's grid

New value: Field content to replace existing data for ALL records within the selected filter criteria when you click Update

Progress:

Records read: Number of records read from the source file

Records updated: Number of records written to the target file

Failed updates: Number of records not written to the target file

PUSH BUTTONS:

Warning: The Update button updates ALL records within the selected filter criteria with the data in the Editing details group box.

Update: Updates ALL records within the selected filter criteria with the data in the Editing details group box

Note: If the selected field is language-specific, only that language is updated.