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LaCrews, It is currently not possible to do that with the API. My suggestion is to create a screen and use the loop through table action to do the update Dave

From what I can see we can only update a single record per update call. I have a situation where I need to update a boolean in 2,500 time tracking records and am concerned about timeouts.  Is it possible to have a where clause that is something other than a single RecordID?

 thanks for the reply. I will try this. In my case, this must be pure API, and I am using a new un-cusomtized UI. I have to have it generic so it can be used in any customers system barring some weird stuff they may do.

 Hi Jacob, There are 2 ways to do what you are asking. You can use the create short method url action from within method itself. (You can read up on it at http://www.methodintegration.com/method/kb.aspx?folder=methodcrm&article=Create-Short-Method-URL&id=165) The second way is using the API, I will provide examples below. My ...

I just checked through the list of options for the "Call another action set" action, and I notice those two action sets do not appear there.  The options for "Copy action set" do not include those two either.    I've noticed that when you change the active record ID on a screen (by, say, selecting a ...

Both good ideas that I have now adopted. Thanks guys!

Thanks for keeping me updated!

You had me really confused, but once I got into it, it was pretty simple to create the custom screen.  Worked perfectly.  I was able to export, clean up my activity list, then create the custom screen to delete everything, then import it all again.  :)  Thank you.  My activities are clean, and all of them are finally ...

[quote user="SMFletcher91"]Is there any way to completely clean the activity table then import the cleaned up list?[/quote] There is no clean table feature - your best bet is to build a custom screen to loop through a grid based on the table you want to clean.  The tutorial I linked above should give you a good overview of how to ...

[quote user="VLocke"]I don't see the tab, tables or any signs of the application[/quote] If Field Services is on your account you should see a tab group for Field Service Operations to the left of your username at the top righthand side of your Method page.  If Method Field Services is (active) and you're still not seeing ...