About changes to names of many client contact records
You can use the Recordsdashboard tab to change the name of many client contact records at the same time.
This image and table gives the applicable settings:Figure 1. Name change settings
Setting
Function
Auto Clean & Capitalise Words
ezyVet changes the first letter of each word to a capital letter.
Find And Replace Characters
ezyVet finds the given text and replaces it with the new given text.
Move Text To End Of Name
ezyVet:
Finds the given word and replaces it with the new given word
Moves the new word to the end of the name
Note: For example, a client contact record has the name Owen Craig. In the Word to be replaced box, you enter Owen. Then, in the Replace with word (appended) box, you enter McDermott. Result: ezyVet changes the name Owen Craig to Craig McDermott.
To change the names of contact records, it is not necessary to use the settings given in the table. During the name change procedure, the Records dashboard shows one more dialog box that you can use to change the names. Clean Names dialog box shows an example of the dialog box. The Old Last Name boxes show two records that have an incorrect * character in the name. In the New Last Name boxes, a staff member removed the incorrect character from the records.Figure 2. Clean Names dialog box
