Bulk Update Runs
Overview
The bulk update runs allow you to update all or a subset of your product, card, person or machine records without having to update manually or perform an export/import operation. Simply select the data type you’re updating, choose a field and enter a new value. Extract a list of proposed changes and post when you’re happy with the result.
Bulk update runs can take hours to build. Run them on a machine that you don't need for the day when you are initially extracting them.
Do not update product categories on products with bulk update runs. The reason is, bulk update runs are intended to update fields that exist only on each particular file, not links between files. Product category on products is a link between product and category. As a result the product category will be set to blank if you try to update it with a bulk update run. The same warning applies to all fields that are links on any file.
Getting Started
- Mass updating data using a bulk update run
- Mass updating product price categories using a bulk update run
- Mass updating the display on website checkbox using a bulk update run
- Mass updating customer price levels
Reference
Buttons
| Image | Field | Description |
|---|---|---|
 | Extract | Generate the lines for this bulk update run |
 | Post | Update your products with the changes shown in this bulk update run |
 | Parameters | Show the parameters used to extract this bulk update run |
Fields
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Type | This is the transaction type for the bulk update run BLKRUN (Bulk Update Run) |
| Number | Each time you create a new bulk update run it gives that run a unique number corresponding the transaction type |
| Status | The status of the bulk update run |
| Date | The date the bulk update run was created |
| Name | The name you have given the bulk update run |
| Data Type | The type of data you are updating through the bulk update run |
Lines tab
| Field | Description | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record | The record that was updated | |||||||||||||||
| Field | The field that was affected by the update | |||||||||||||||
| Old Value | What the old value was before the update | |||||||||||||||
| New Value | What the new value is after the update.
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