• Operations
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• Adding an Auto-Increment ID Field to a Table
• Append Operations
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• Create Operation
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• Data Processing Operations
• Delete Marked Customers
• Export Operations
• Import Operations
• Intersect, Join and Subtract Operations
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• Order Builder
• Post Operations
• Prompting for Confirmation
• Rolling Back Enter and Change Operations
• Run Saved Operation
• Running Saved Operations
• Selecting Records for Operations
• Summarize Operations
• Supplying a Filter and Order at Run Time
• Symmetrical Outer Join
• Update Operations
• Using Operation Builders
• Using Quick Operations
• Using the Operation Genies
• Viewing the Xbasic of Operations

 

Prompting for Confirmation

Description

When you run an Operation, Alpha Anywhere displays a dialog box telling you how many records will be processed by the Operation. At this point, you can abort the Operation. For example, when performing an Update Operation, Alpha Anywhere will display this dialog box:

You can set a preference in View > Settings > Preferences > Operations to turn off the confirmation dialogs for operations.

Display Results after Operation Completes

After an Operation has run, the confirmation dialog that Alpha Anywhere displays includes a button that lets you view the results of the Operation. For example, after an Export Operation, the confirmation dialog lets you open the file created by the Export. After an Update Operation has run, the confirmation dialog lets you browse the table that was just updated.

Limitations

Desktop Applications Only