Mass Replacement

Mass Replacements allows you to carry out replacement of an Item, Descriptor or Labour Code by an Item, Descriptor or Labour Code at selective occurrences across the whole system.   This is achieved on a single screen and one update function.

Entry and Display fields

Existing Component (Old)

Code Type: From the drop-down list select the Type of product that is being replaced.   The options are Item, Descriptor or Labour Code

Code: From the drop-down list select the specific product.  This drop-down list shows the relevant list relating to the Code Type

Description: Display only field showing the description of the Item, Descriptor or Labour Code.

Unit: Display only field showing the Unit of Measure for the Item, Descriptor or Labour Code.

Replacement Component (New)

Code Type: From the drop-down list select the Type of product that is replacing the old product.   The options are Item, Descriptor or Labour Code.  You should note that you do not have to replace a Code Type with the same Code Type

Code: From the drop-down list select the specific product.  This drop-down list shows the relevant list relating to the Code Type

Description: Display only field showing the description of the Item, Descriptor or Labour Code.

Unit: Display only field showing the Unit of Measure for the Item, Descriptor or Labour Code.

Parent Types

Types for Replacement: In the drop-down list ‘check’ the areas where you are making the replacement.   The Options are:

Retrieve: Having selected the Types of replacement this button becomes active.  Upon Clicking on this the program will return all occurrences of the ‘Old’ components in the above ‘Types for Replacement’ categories and display them in the lower panel for further action.

Lower Panel

Select: ‘Check’ the checkbox where you want the replacement to be made.   You have the option to click on the ‘Select All Codes’ Button at the bottom of this panel to select all the records.  You may also click on the ‘De-select All Codes’ Button at the bottom of this panel to ‘un-select’ all the records

Parent Type: This is a display only field that shows where the component being replaced exists in Ostendo.  This can be:

Parent Code: This is a display only field that shows the Parent Type’s parent Identity

Old Quantity: This is a display only field that shows the current usage quantity of the ‘old’ component in the Parent Identity.

Old Unit: This is a display only field that shows the Unit of Measure of the ‘old’ component in the Parent Identity.

New Quantity: This is prefilled with the ‘Old Quantity’ but may be amended to suit this replacement.

New Unit: This is prefilled with the ‘Old Unit’ but may be amended to suit this replacement.  If this is being changed then select the alternate unit from the drop-down list.  This displays only those units that are used by the ‘New’ component

Parent Description: This is a display only field that shows the Parent’s Description.

Buttons

Select all Codes: Selecting this button will ‘check’ all the components in the lower panel

De-select all Codes: Selecting this button will ‘un-check’ all the components in the lower panel

Update selected Parents: All the ‘checked’ lines will have their ‘old’ component replaced with the ‘new’ component.

Cancel: Any changes made since this screen was accessed will be lost.