Below you will find a tutorial teaching you how to update the class/year group for an entire class/year group.
Please note this guide requires that you are running at least version 8.6.22 of QuickTrack Pro For Schools.
a)
Open the QuickTrack Pro For Schools Software and select "Preferences".
b)
Select "Databases" from the sidebar on the Preferences window.
c)
Select the "Mass Update" tab on the Databases Preferences
d)
Click the "Database" popup
e)
Choose the Student Database
f)
Click the "If" popup
g)
I will be searching for Students in a particular year therefore I choose "Year" from the popup menu
h)
Enter the Year which you want to update
i)
Click the "Set" popup
j)
I will be setting the year for the students therefore I choose "Year" from the popup menu
k)
Enter the value you would like to set the Year field to.
l)
Here we can see how many records will be affected by this change
m)
Click the "Update" button
n)
A dialog to confirm the change will appear, check that the change is what you are expecting and click the "Continue" button
o)
If the change was successful a dialog stating the number of records changed will show
p)
You will now see the record count has updated to show that there are no records for the current lookup as they have been changed
o)
We can also see on the student's record that the year has been updated
You can now repeat the steps for the other year groups
This method will work for any other field you would like to mass update also
If you encounter any issues following this guide please let our tech team know
