{ "id": "BE03", "title": "Serial edit in a dialog", "topic": "bulk-editing", "use": "Edit a selection one record after the other, each with a value of its own. This is not bulk editing but serial single editing — the posting text of twelve documents is twelve different texts. Setting one field for all of them is BE02.", "decisions": [ "Filtering assembles the set, this pattern works it off: without it each record means opening and closing the edit area and finding the place in the list again. The run turns twelve round trips into one — in once, on twelve times, out once.", "A dialog, not a surface beside the list: the run is a step of its own, and the dialog shows what the user needs — which record, which one of how many, and how far along.", "Progress stands at the top as a determinate bar with a count, because the extent is known and someone halfway through must see how much is left.", "The footer has exactly one accent button, first; the other buttons state their emphasis, and a named way out stands among them. Labels say what happens — Save document and continue, Skip document, Stop editing — and on the last record the accent button says Save document and close.", "The bare arrow keys stay with the fields, where they change an option or a radio value. Alt + Arrow Down saves and goes to the next record; Alt + Arrow Up goes back without saving.", "A record that cannot be changed says so before the user types: its fields are read-only, the notification names the reason, and the accent button reads Skip document.", "Stopping asks only when the open record holds an unsaved change: every record saved so far stays saved, so there is nothing else to lose." ], "try": [ { "do": "Choose Edit documents", "then": "twelve documents are already selected, the dialog shows the first one, and the progress at the top reads 0 of 12 edited" }, { "do": "Change a posting text and choose Save document and continue", "then": "the value stands in the row, the next document is in the dialog, and the bar moves on" }, { "do": "Press Alt and Arrow Down", "then": "the same path by keyboard; the arrow keys alone stay with the fields" }, { "do": "Choose the arrow for the previous document", "then": "it points up, and the previous document is back" }, { "do": "Select a finalized document as well and start the run", "then": "the starting selection holds none, so the first run goes smoothly; one added turns up with read-only fields, the reason in the notification, and Skip document on the accent button" }, { "do": "Look at the footer on the last document", "then": "it reads Save document and close — no continue where nothing follows" }, { "do": "Stop in the middle of the run", "then": "a warning asks only when the open document holds an unsaved change; the documents saved before stay saved, and a toast says how many are changed and how many unchanged" }, { "do": "Search for “Depreciation” and choose Edit documents", "then": "the run still covers all thirteen selected documents, though the list shows none of them" } ], "revision": 2, "changes": [ { "revision": 2, "change": "Why Edit documents and Clear selection are disabled is an ed-tooltip on each, outside the toolbar, not the buttons' title; it shows only while the button is disabled." } ], "reviewed": true, "source": "\n\n\n \n \n Edit documents\n \n Clear selection\n\nSelect at least one document in the list, and the button becomes available.\nNothing is selected — there is nothing to clear.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n
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\n\n Save document and continue\n Skip document\n Stop editing\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n", "page": "https://test-apps.eurodata.de/a/eurodata-ui/docs/patterns/bulk-editing/be03-serial-edit-in-a-dialog/", "topicPage": "https://test-apps.eurodata.de/a/eurodata-ui/docs/patterns/bulk-editing/" }