One of the long-standing market-leading capabilities of the CTI products is the ability of administrative users to extend their data management beyond the Standard Fields available for People, Submissions, Reviewers, Sessions, Session Builders, Presentations, and Registrants. These “Extra fields” allow clients to manage and report on data custom to their circumstances without development support. With this update, those data fields can be quickly changed with a bulk action. Combined with the support for Extra fields in Advanced Search we deployed last week, an admin can quickly search for particular fields, select all the items in the advanced search, and bulk change entire specific lists.
For example, let’s create the field “CME Credits” for Sessions in Settings > Meeting set-up > Fields & sections.
Staying with our example above, an admin user can go into the Sessions dashboard and bulk change the “CME Credits” to the desired number:
1. Bulk actions are activated after checking the boxes on the left or selecting all of the boxes
2. Select the action ribbon “lightning bolt” icon
3. Choose the bulk action data change
4. Enter the value to bulk change the data
These bulk changes to extra data fields are available for the People, Presentations, Sessions, Registration, and Forms tabs in cAdmin using the same process shown above.