Deleting Unused SCIS Records
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Use the below steps to delete unused SCIS records only after you have edited all those that need to be.


  1. Go into SCIS/ Edit in Data Entry and check the number of records present, write this number down
  2. Load Utilities and do a Backup (just the first option)
  3. Once the Backup is complete, click the Update Menu, select Catalogue and Update
  4. When prompted about having done a backup, click ‘Yes’
  5. Under Selection Criteria select ‘SCIS Number’
  6. Put a # in the ‘Contains’ Field & Click ‘Apply’
  7. This will now filter the database and display all the resource that have a # still in their SCIS Number field.
  8. Check the total filtered records across the bottom of the page, matches with the number you wrote down, if it does we are ready to proceed if not, something has gone wrong.
  9. Click ‘Purge’ on the right hand side and ‘Yes’
  10. This will now have purged all of your records containing a # in the ‘SCIS Number’ field