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  • Same field name (but duplicated) = same query results?

    Posted by Carla Vidal on April 1, 2015 at 12:26 pm

    Hi there,

    It might be a stupid question but I would like to make sure of this issue.

    I have a NOTES (red) user defined field which we have been using so far.
    I realised that there is a built in field also named NOTES (green). I have been changing things in both detailed panel and search panel and now I am worried if I changed from one NOTES green to the other NOTES red -or viceversa- and that implies not getting all the results because the program understands it as two different fields…

    Thank you in advance for helping

    Cheers

    Carla

    Carla Vidal replied 11 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Dougal Matthews

    April 15, 2015 at 10:31 am

    hi Carla

    you can use the Bult edit tool to append the contents of one field to another i suggest in your case you move the contents of your user created ( red ) notes field to the built in ( green) notes field

    if you use the append option you will add the red notes to any existing green notes

    Use Bulk Edit as a flexible tool to copy one field to another or automatically renumber clips. Select the destination field whose value you want to set, then either type in a fixed value to use or select another property to copy or move to the destination. To use automatic numbering type in a value like “Scene 009″ and the next line will automatically be incremented to “Scene 010″ etc.

    thank you dougal

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  • Carla Vidal

    April 15, 2015 at 3:20 pm

    Yes I know the bulk edit tool, thank you for the detailed explanation. It’s been very useful since I didn’t think about it to solve the problem. Thanks!

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