Using group edits / null fields

Using group edits / null fields

Gentlemen,

I’m having the following problems.

1. Group edit does not work. I select multiple records, click Bulk Edit, select a field and enter a value to be assigned for all records, click Apply and confirm OK. I get an error that says “Enter a value for Group name.”

I did not select the field Group name to edit. The field Group name is a required field and already exists in all records. So this error does not make sense. I get this error regardless of which records I edit and which field(s) I enter to group edit.

How do I avoid this error and successfully do a bulk edit?

2. I add a field to my existing database application. How do I use Set Criteria to deal both with records with no values entered before a field was added and records with values entered after the field was added? If I could do group edit, that is one solution. But since that isn’t working, I’m trying to use criteria filtering as a workaround.

Here is an example. Let’s say I add decision field type Permission. How do I use criteria to restrict records to include both Permission=true and records with no field value?

If I set criteria Permission=true, I do not get records with no field value. If I set criteria Permission/=false. I still do not get records with no field value.

Thank you,
Marc Freedman



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