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| FSEDIT-Style Paging in the Edit Record Form | Page through your data one record at a time in the Edit Record dialog - a modern take on the classic SAS PROC FSEDIT full-screen editor. | 2026-07-30 09:00:00 | Data Controller | https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/data_controller |
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FSEDIT-Style Paging in the Edit Record Form
Anyone who has worked with SAS for a while will remember PROC FSEDIT - the full-screen editor that let you step through a dataset one observation at a time, seeing every variable for a single record laid out on screen. It was a simple, focused way to review and amend data without getting lost in a wide grid.
Data Controller's Edit Record dialog brings that experience into the browser. Instead of scanning across dozens of columns in the grid, you open a single row as a form - every field labelled and stacked vertically, with dropdowns, validations and formatting applied just as they are in the main editor.
Now you can page through your records without leaving the form. Previous and Next arrows move you one record at a time, and a Current row indicator shows exactly where you are in the extract. It's the fastest way to work through a set of rows methodically - reviewing, correcting and moving on - especially for wide tables where horizontal scrolling in the grid slows you down.
As always, everything flows through the standard Data Controller workflow: your changes are staged, validated and sent for approval before they reach the target table, with a full audit trail retained.
Administrators who prefer to keep the grid-only experience can still disable the dialog with the DC_RESTRICT_EDITRECORD option.