script acting on selected records?

[Bert Rietveld]

Is it possible to have a script acting on (a few) selected records rather than all or one?
I’d like to use that for a ‘merge records’ script. The map view is great for seeing that a couple of records are for the same (or close) location even when they have (slightly) different names. I could then select them and merge those records.

[Brendan]

You can create a Saved Search to filter your records, and then have a Script run against just the found set. But not on arbitrarily selected records.

[Bert Rietveld]

Thanks, Brendan! That’ll work. I had thought that it would always run through every record in the database, not just the search results. Good to know!

[Brendan]

There’s a var mySearch = form.getSearchNamed('My Search Name'); method which will return a search. Then you can call var foundRecords = mySearch.getRecords(); method to retrieve the set of records. Then you can loop through those records and process the records however you like.

[Bert Rietveld]

Wow, this is great. And thanks so much for the excellent support!

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