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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. | 2026-08-09 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. 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.
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.
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 disable the dialog with the DC_RESTRICT_EDITRECORD option.