Why move multiple items from locations or categories or insurance companies?

Here are a few scenarios:

1. You are moving to a new home and not everything will be stored at the new home. Many items you had in the basement, attic, and garage for example will now be stored in a outside storage facility (like U-haul or PBS Storage) because you do not have enough room in the new home to store everything.
2. You are re-arranging things (spring cleaning) and you are moving many items between several rooms.
3. You have a new insurance policy and this policy now covers only your Fine arts and jewelry. The policy has a different policy number than you regular home owners insurance policy. You now need to select many different items that were listed on your home owners policy (or maybe several policies) to the new policy.
4. When you created your inventory several months ago you entered all of your sporting goods and equipment into one category which was called Sporting Equipment. But now you want to change that and move items that are related to camping to the Camping Equipment category, and items that are related to exercise to a new category called Exercise Equipment and all items related to hunting to Hunting Equipment.
5. You are moving and your now have to change the address of your home and even the nik-name. However most items will stay in the same rooms in the new home.
6. You have a new insurance company for your home owners insurance.

As you can see from the above scenarios that moving many items listed in many rooms or listed in other ways could require allot of time if you had to edit each record and make the change. Here is how you get around that.

For scenarios 1-4 you could use the "Re-assign" feature built into the TreeView procedure. See Re-assigning many items and view the help and images to learn more.

For scenarios 5 and 6 you just simply type in the new name of the Location or Room name or Insurance company and all records that were listed for that location or room or insurance company will be changed. The same is true for re-assigning categories, retailers or manufactures.

Let say you listed 20 items in a category called Equipment. But later down the road you don't like that name (or you noticed you mis-spelled it) you can change it by updating the category name from the Categories Pick List and all records listed under Equipment will now display the new name.