Update Stock Mixture Properties From the Databank
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This dialog appears of you select Tasks } Stock Mixture } Update Properties From DB from the main menu of the application.

From this dialog the user can select to update two different types of property data of more than one registered stock mixture at the same time, by retrieving the properties from the corresponding mixture in the chosen databases.

Table column description and function:

      ‘Incl/Excl’ Column
From this column you may choose which mixture you wish to update its properties. The grayed out cells cannot be checked because there is no mixture with the same formal name residing in any database type (newly registered mixtures in the process).

      ‘Local Name’ Column
A list of all the registered stock mixtures in the process, in alphabetical order displayed by local name.

      ‘Name’ Column
The formal name of all registered stock mixtures.

      ‘Source’ Column
The original database source of the registered stock mixture, indicating also if its properties are different than that of database mixture (*) or if it doesn’t exist in the current database (-).

      ‘Database’ Column
The database type that the mixture can be found in. Please note that a mixture can only reside in the ‘SupePro (User)’ database.

      ‘Phys. Props.’ Column
From this column the user may check to retrieve the Physical Properties of the mixture from the selected database.

      ‘Economic Props.’ Column
From this column the user may check to retrieve the Economic Properties of the mixture from the selected database.

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It is possible to check all the check boxes in the same column. This can be done by selecting the whole column (click on the header of the column) and clicking on the Check All (CheckAllBtn00085.jpg) button. To un-check all cells in the same column just select the whole column as before and click on the Un-check All (UnCheckAllBtn00086.jpg) button.

Finally to perform the update of the selected properties and of the selected stock mixtures from the selected databases just click on the Update button at the bottom right corner. You can exit this dialog and keep all the changes made to the stock mixtures by clicking on OK or to ignore the changes just exit with Cancel as usual.

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The Update button is disabled if there are no stock mixtures checked to be updated. If a mixture is checked to be updated but none of the property types have been selected, then a message will inform the user that no property has been selected to be updated.

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When updating the Physical Properties data from the database, the registered mixture may require additional ingredient(s) to be registered before completing the update. With the following dialog prompt the user is warned of this and consulted to register these ingredients.

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This dialog will not update any IDs data, found on the Stock Mixture Properties Dialog: IDs Tab.


See also Update Stock Mixture Properties To the Databank.