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How to easily and quickly change a large number of Icons for an entity type ?

How To


Summary

If you want to change the icon associated to a large number of records in iBase the best solution is to use the "Assign Icons" function in the Edit menu.
Check the Step-by-step process below.

Objective

This document will explain how to assign an icon to a number of Entities in iBase, using the "Assign Icons" function.

Steps

The main question is whether you have a way to know what are the entities you want to change the icons.

If yes, then you must create a Query or a Set to have all these entities.

Then, in iBase User, you must go in the Edit menu, then "Assign Icons".

Then, do the following steps :

  1. Select the Entity type that you want to change (for example Person).
  2. On the right, select the Visual Query, or the Set that contains all the entities you want to change their icon
  3. Select the Icon you want to assign to those records
  4. Click on the Assign button
  5. Depending on the number of records to update, you can either blink, or go and grab a cup of coffee.
  6. Once done, check that the result is what you expect by querying some records that were previously with the wrong icon.
If you don't have a way to know what are the entities you want to change the icons, you can create a Set, and manually add all the entities you want to alter into this set.

Document Location

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Document Information

Modified date:
27 October 2021

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ibm11274512