Left-Right Marker

The left-right marker is helpful to assign a value to a field for multiple records at once.

Description

The LR Marker is a form made of two almost identical groups of controls. Load the list on one side for the existing value, and the list on the other side for the value you want to assign.

Select the records that need to be changed and use the arrow buttons to give them the value of the other side.

Using the Marker

1. On each side, tick and pick the value and press Load to list the records that currently have that value. Tick Unmarked instead to list the records that have no value yet. The list can be narrowed further with the other filters on that side (for example Account Group), or by typing part of a name — * works as a wildcard.
2. Tick Allow Updates. The update buttons stay locked until this is ticked, and the panel turns pink while updates are allowed — a guard against changing records by accident.
3. Select one or more records and use the arrow buttons:

Button	Action
> / <	Moves the highlighted record to the other side's value
>> / <<	Moves all the selected records to the other side's value

Double-clicking a record also moves it across, once Allow Updates is ticked.

Allow Updates is shown only to users who have Edit permission for the related master.

If a master was changed while the marker is open, use Reload Combos to refresh the drop-downs.

The Markers

We use two types of LR-Markers

1. Updates the field with a text value.

   

   Values like city and pincode for accounts, or type, category, location for items.

2. Updates the field with an id-value from another table.

   

   Values like account group, collection group for accounts or manufacturer for items.

info

If the value needs to be updated for a single record then you may do it by directly editing the record in its dedicated entry form.