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title: 'FSEDIT-Style Paging in the Edit Record Form'
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description: 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.
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date: '2026-08-09 09:00:00'
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author: 'Data Controller'
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authorLink: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/data_controller
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tags:
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- Announcements
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previewImg: './example.png'
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# FSEDIT-Style Paging in the Edit Record Form
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Anyone who has worked with SAS for a while will remember `PROC FSEDIT`. Part of the SAS/FSP (Full-Screen Product) family alongside `PROC FSVIEW` and `PROC FSBROWSE`, it was for years the standard way to edit a dataset interactively: one observation per screen, typing directly over values, and commiting straight to the underlying dataset. That focused, one-record-at-a-time view was a simple way to amend data without getting lost in a wide grid - though edits landed immediately, with no staging or approval step in between.
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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.
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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.
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<iframe title="Forwards_Backwards_in_Edit_Record_Modal" width="560" height="315" src="https://vid.4gl.io/videos/embed/o8yzHqRqTWhYo6cgNACRkg" style="border: 0px;" allow="fullscreen" sandbox="allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-forms"></iframe>
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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.
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Administrators who prefer to keep the grid-only experience can disable the dialog with the [`DC_RESTRICT_EDITRECORD`](https://docs.datacontroller.io/dcc-options/#dc_restrict_editrecord) option.
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