Technical Note: List Edit Mode

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Making edits in a Point of Sale list is similar to working in a spreadsheet, but there is an important difference.

When you open a typical spreadsheet for editing, the program locks the entire spreadsheet and prevents a second user from accessing the spreadsheet until you have finished your edits and saved.

Because Point of Sale allows multiple workstations to access your company data simultaneously, it does not lock the records in the list when you enter list edit mode. You can move row to row (record to record) freely without locking out other workstations. Only when you actually begin editing a record is that one row (record) locked while you make your edits. As soon as you move out of the row, your changes are saved and the record freed again to other users.

This is why it is necessary to click in a field a second time to "activate" editing of that individual record character-by-character, even after list edit mode is enabled. Once you begin editing a record you can move field to field within the same row and you stay in active edit mode until you leave that row.

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