Making Mass Changes: Group Updating

This section describes group updating — making the same change, or changes, to more than one record in one operation. The steps include:

• Specifying Group Update Changes
  
• Excluding Records from the Group Update
  
• Running the Group Update on the CDS
  
• Testing that the Changes Are Valid
  
• Printing a Report of the CDS Changes
  
• Viewing Group Update Histories
  
• Applying the Changes to the Database
  Changes you make to records in the CDS, whether individual record changes or group updates, are reflected only in the CDS until you explicitly apply the changes to the database.
• Soft-Deleting RDCIs
  An RDCI corresponds to a CRF, or Oracle Clinical "document". The only change you can make to an RDCI through the RDCI Soft Deletes Mass Change utility is to delete the entire CRF.