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Editing Globals

Editing Globals

Caution:

Before making any edits, be sure that you know which globals Caché uses and which globals your application uses; see “General Advice.” There is no undo option. A modified global cannot be restored.

The Edit Global Data page enables you to edit globals. In the table, the first column displays the row number, the next column lists the nodes, and the right column shows the values (with a blue underline to indicate that the value can be edited). This page initially shows the first hundred nodes in the global.

To access and use this page:

  1. Display the Globals page.

  2. Select the Edit link next to the name of a global.

  3. Optionally use the Global Search Mask field to refine what is displayed. See “Viewing Global Data.”

  4. Optionally specify a different number of nodes to display. To do so, enter an integer into Maximum Rows.

  5. If necessary, navigate to the value you want to edit by selecting the subscripts that correspond to it.

  6. Select the value that you want to edit.

    The page then displays two editable fields:

    • The top field contains the full global reference for the node you are editing. For example: ^Sample.PersonD("18")

      You can edit this to refer to a different global node. If you do so, your action affects the newly specified global node.

    • The bottom field contains the current value of this node. For example:

      $lb("",43144,$lb("White","Orange"),$lb("8262 Elm Avenue","Islip","RI",57581),"Rogers,Emilio L.",
      $lb("7430 Washington Street","Albany","GA",66833),"650-37-4263","")
      

    Edit the values as needed.

  7. If you make edits, click Save to save your changes, or click Cancel.

Or, to delete a node:

  1. Optionally select Delete global subnodes during deletion

  2. Click Delete.

  3. Click OK to confirm this action.

Also see “Performing Wholesale Replacements,” later in this chapter.

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