Product Update: Bulk Edit of Custom Fields and Usability Improvements

May 20 2011, 7:25am

Three very helpful usability enhancements to talk about this week:Quick Edit BarIf you look in the far right-hand side of the first column, you’ll notice a small icon:When you click on this icon, you now have a number of the common edit tasks available to you without opening the record.Resizing ColumnsUp until now, you could resize all the columns in your list of contacts, except the first one.  I found this particularly annoying, because this column often had a long name or URL in it.  We’ve fixed this, so now, just hover over the right edge of the column header and increase the width to your heart’s content (assuming that’s what makes your heart content).Bulk Editing of Custom FieldsAdding custom fields to your account gives you the ability to track extra information about your contacts and links.  Now, you can edit the values for a group of contacts or links at once.  To do this, just select the set of contacts that you want to edit:Click ‘Edit->Custom Fields’ Share: