Update multiple records

I have a custom entity form setup to populate a URL field with the record's
URL upon a save event. The problem is that I have over 600 existing records
that need the URL to populate. Is there any way to populate this field
without having to access and save each record individually?

DavidJennaway
Wed Mar 12 18:43:00 CDT 2008

I'm afraid not. You can normally use BulkEdit to modify multiple records in
one go, but that necessarily writes the same values to each record.

I'm a bit puzzled why you'd want to do store the record's URL, as this can
be derived in client code in the form
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"Sarah Montgomery" wrote:

> I have a custom entity form setup to populate a URL field with the record's
> URL upon a save event. The problem is that I have over 600 existing records
> that need the URL to populate. Is there any way to populate this field
> without having to access and save each record individually?

SarahMontgomery
Wed Mar 12 19:27:00 CDT 2008

Thanks for the information.

I have two uses for this, but ulitmately it's about ease of navigation for
end user:
1. embed a URL link in workflow emails so users can easily navigate to
record without having the Outlook client installed
2. export the link to spreadsheets (this has value in how we use MapPoint)

I'd be open to any other easy ways of deriving the URL for these purposes.
But this seems to work.

"David Jennaway" wrote:

> I'm afraid not. You can normally use BulkEdit to modify multiple records in
> one go, but that necessarily writes the same values to each record.
>
> I'm a bit puzzled why you'd want to do store the record's URL, as this can
> be derived in client code in the form
> --
> David Jennaway - Microsoft Dynamics CRM MVP
> Web: http://www.excitation.co.uk
> Blog: http://mscrmuk.blogspot.com/
>
>
> "Sarah Montgomery" wrote:
>
> > I have a custom entity form setup to populate a URL field with the record's
> > URL upon a save event. The problem is that I have over 600 existing records
> > that need the URL to populate. Is there any way to populate this field
> > without having to access and save each record individually?

ManojKithanyMSFT
Mon Mar 24 07:08:01 CDT 2008

Hi Sarah,

As David pointed, you can use Bulk Edit to edit URL field. However, you can
do so only for a max of 250 records per page... i.e.: you can do Bulk Edit
for max of 250 records/page at a given time.

Thanks!

Manoj
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"Sarah Montgomery" wrote:

> Thanks for the information.
>
> I have two uses for this, but ulitmately it's about ease of navigation for
> end user:
> 1. embed a URL link in workflow emails so users can easily navigate to
> record without having the Outlook client installed
> 2. export the link to spreadsheets (this has value in how we use MapPoint)
>
> I'd be open to any other easy ways of deriving the URL for these purposes.
> But this seems to work.
>
> "David Jennaway" wrote:
>
> > I'm afraid not. You can normally use BulkEdit to modify multiple records in
> > one go, but that necessarily writes the same values to each record.
> >
> > I'm a bit puzzled why you'd want to do store the record's URL, as this can
> > be derived in client code in the form
> > --
> > David Jennaway - Microsoft Dynamics CRM MVP
> > Web: http://www.excitation.co.uk
> > Blog: http://mscrmuk.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
> > "Sarah Montgomery" wrote:
> >
> > > I have a custom entity form setup to populate a URL field with the record's
> > > URL upon a save event. The problem is that I have over 600 existing records
> > > that need the URL to populate. Is there any way to populate this field
> > > without having to access and save each record individually?