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The table editor

Browse a project's tables and work its data in a grid - columns, row tools, paging and validation.

The table editor is where most work in Manage happens. It has two panels: a table panel on the left for choosing what to work on, and the data grid on the right for working it.

The table panel

Two tabs sit at the top:

  • Tables - every table in the project, each with a record count. Search with Search tables..., and use the eye toggle to show or hide empty tables (hidden by default, revealed automatically when you search).
  • Views - your saved views, a Pro feature.

A locations filter above the list narrows the whole editor to specific locations or a location group. At the foot of the panel, the validation indicator runs your quality checks - see Validation.

The data grid

Select a table and its records load into the grid:

  • Columns come from the table's fields; resize them by dragging a border, and pin them left or right. A breadcrumb shows the parent chain for a child table, and the Layout dialog lists every column as a reference.
  • Hover a column header to see its AGS heading beside the field's name, for example Geology code GEOL_GEOL.
  • Edit data inline or through the row editor - see Editing records.
  • The grid loads a page at a time and shows a count like Showing 1-50 of 240 rows; choose a page size (10 to 250; 50 by default) and move through with the pager.

Row and location tools

Alongside the data columns, each row has a few action columns:

  • Flags - flag a record with a note, a priority and a resolved status. Works on every table; review flags across the project on the Flags screen.
  • Media - the photo and document indicator. It shows a count; click it to preview the attached media and Upload more. See Media.

On the samples table you also get:

  • Testing - a flask icon on any sample that is on a testing schedule or chain of custody: amber while it is out for testing, green once its results are back, grey when it has not been sent yet, and red when it is marked missing (unless it is out at a lab on another schedule). A number shows when the sample is on more than one schedule. Click it to see each schedule (status, lab, PO, lab receipt ref and any receipt issue, tests and file count), its chains of custody, and a dated timeline of everything that has happened to the sample. Click a schedule reference to open that schedule.
  • Handle with care - a shield column to flag a sample handle with care with a note, or clear the flag. It saves straight away.
  • A Disposed tag on samples that have been disposed of.

If you start editing a sample that is out for testing, a one-off warning reminds you which schedule it is on, because the lab matches its results back using those values. It does not stop you making the change.

On the Locations table you also get:

  • Completion status - whether each location (hole) is finished.
  • Export preference - a per-location override of the log and depth used when that location is exported. See Export preferences.
  • Sign-off - where each location is in checking and approving: the same coloured dot as on Logs & Sheets with its round (R1, R2), ringed amber when an approved log's data has been edited since. Hover it for the status, the last step and whose step is next; click it to open the location on Logs & Sheets, on its Sign-off tab. It shows when your company uses sign-off, and Columns hides it.
  • Map placement - toggle a column of the internal coordinates used to place a location on the map when survey coordinates are not available.

Working with selected rows

Tick rows to select them and the toolbar offers Edit, Bulk update, Delete, Create location group, Open log (on Logs & Sheets), and PDF export. With sign-off in use, Submit N for checking sends the selected locations that aren't in yet as one batch. See Editing records and Exporting PDF logs.

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Last updated 15 October 2026