Password Retriever Help

# Applying changes to multiple services at once (Bulk Edit)

At times, after creating numerous services, you realize that it might have been in your best interest to edit or delete a field for all of them. It would be a pain to go through each service manually one at at time adding or removing the field. The Bulk Edit feature allows you to rename, delete, or modify the type of fields for the selected services.

1. Select the services in the main window which will be changed.
2. Choose "Bulk Edit" from the Service menu.
3. Check the modify checkbox next to any of the first four options you'd like to change on the selected services, and then choose the new value.
4. Choose the name of the field to modify. If the field does not exist within the selected service, it will be left untouched.
5. Check off and specify new values for any of the properties of each field, be it the name, type, or contents. You may also delete any fields matching that name by checking the last box.
6. Click Change.

If you have opted to change the name of a field for services and a field by that name already exists, the name will not be changed. Also, if you currently are editing a service and the fields have just changed because of the Bulk Editor, it is advisable that you click the Revert option in the window or the new bulk effects will not take effect when the service is saved.

There is no easy undo action for this feature if you save your database. If you do make a change that you wish to undo at this point, close your database, do NOT save, and reopen it.

In addition, you may wish to add a new field to a selected range of services. At this point in time, Password Retriever can only add new fields to ALL services within a single category.

1. View the category containing the services you wish to add the new field to.
2. Choose "For New Services in this Category" from the Define Fields icon on the toolbar.
3. Click the Add Field icon on the toolbar.
4. Specify the type and name for the new field.
5. Check "Append to existing services in this category"
6. Click Add.

## See also

Configure the default set of fields for new services