• Operations
• Overview of Batch Operations
• Adding an Auto-Increment ID Field to a Table
• Append Operations
• Applications
• Ascii Export Custom Filters
• Copy Operations
• Create Operation
• Crosstab Operations
• Data Processing Operations
• Delete Marked Customers
• Export Operations
• Import Operations
• Intersect, Join and Subtract Operations
• Mark, Unmark, and Delete Operations
• Order Builder
• Post Operations
• Prompting for Confirmation
• Rolling Back Enter and Change Operations
• Run Saved Operation
• Running Saved Operations
• Selecting Records for Operations
• Summarize Operations
• Supplying a Filter and Order at Run Time
• Symmetrical Outer Join
• Update Operations
• Using Operation Builders
• Using Quick Operations
• Using the Operation Genies
• Viewing the Xbasic of Operations

Using Quick Operations

Description

Often, when you are viewing records in form or browse view, you would like to do a quick Operation on the data (such as Update the value in a selected field in the records that are currently selected), or copy the selected records to a new table, or move the selected records to a new table. You have no need to save the Operation definition for future use. In these cases, the ad-hoc, quick Operations are ideal because they generally involve far fewer steps than defining a new saved Operation. When viewing records in a form or Browse, you can use the Records menu for quick access to the following ad-hoc Operations.

Operations

The following ad-hoc Operations are available:

• Append Records

  Append records from another table into the table you are currently viewing.

• Copy Selected Records

  Copy the currently selected records in the form or browse window to a new, or an existing table.

• Delete/Mark/Un-mark Selected Records

  Delete, mark or un-mark the currently selected records in the form or browse window.

• Move Selected Records

  Move the selected records to another table. The records are copied to the destination table, and then deleted from the source table.

• Update Selected Records

  Update the data in up to five fields in the selected records.

Limitations

Desktop Applications Only