Edit Page

About Edit Page

Working with the database will involve adding new items to the database, modifying existing items, and deleting existing items. Many of these tasks are carried out from the Edit Page. The Edit Page lets you perform a number of tasks on classes and items within the database. Some of these tasks are described in this topic and others are described elsewhere in the documentation. This topic includes the following tasks:

These tasks are described elsewhere in the documentation. Follow these links for more information:

 

Basic Editing

Basic editing involves these tasks:

Copy or Moving an Item from One Class to Another

This task explains how to move or copy an item from one class to another class:

  1. Locate the class containing the item you want to move or copy using Power Search or Viewing Items of a Class.

  2. From the Results Page, check the box to the left of the item you want to move or copy and click Functions > Edit.
     

  3. In the Edit Page, select the box beside the item you want to move or copy. Click the popup icon at the top of the page and select Move/Copy Item.
     

  4. In the Edit Category Browser Page, expand classes to locate the class in which you want to copy or move the item. Click Copy to copy the item into the class. Click Move to Move the item to the class.
     

  5. In the Edit Page, click Insert to insert the item in the class.


     

  6. The application will indicate whether the insertion was successful. At this point you can click Cancel to end editing, or make and save other changes to the newly inserted item.

Moving items from one class to another can be done only if the class properties DB name in the source and target classes are the same.

Duplicating an Item

This task explains how to duplicate an item:
  1. Locate the class containing the item you want to move or copy using Power Search or Viewing Items of a Class.

  2. From the Results Page, check the box to the left of the item you want to duplicate and click Functions > Edit.
     

  3. In the Edit Page, click the popup icon at the top of the page and select Duplicate Item.

  4. In the Edit Page change the value of the primary key attribute and click Insert.

  5. The application will indicate whether the insertion was successful. At this point you can click Cancel to end editing, or make and save other changes to the newly inserted item. 

If a primary key value already exists, a warning appears and the new item is not saved to the database.