>>Hi,
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>>Does your application have a feature where a user can update multiple records at once?
>>If yes, do you then present the data in a grid? Or another approach?
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>>TIA
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>User marks many records in a grid, set up the fields to change and enter data in not-grid PEMs. This will write record by record and let those with a problem marked.
>Normal entry is by record.
>Conflict solution of many records is hell.
>It might work for a set of complete new records - but then user is used to think record by record.
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>The single one place where I do this is the settings form of Bin2Text - but then this is for a single developer on the VFP IDE.
Thank you. The challenge for me will be the columns for the fields that in the application are lookups. This makes the entry already validated. So, I will have to have some columns to be the drop-down (lookup). Other fields, which are free-format text, I don't need to worry about. And I agree that the updating multiple records could be a "hell". Another approach is to allow updating only the free-text columns.
But this is what a customer is asking and - probably -willing to pay for.
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