What do the blue dots in front of every record in Reference List view signify?

Raghav Kakkar · ‎08-23-2023

What do these blue dots in front of every record in Reference List view signify?

Raghav Kakkar · ‎08-23-2023

One of my colleagues pointed out that the dot replaces the blue "i" icon which is used to preview the record when we open a table in list view. It is done via the view "sys_ref_list" and the purpose is that the users should not be able to preview a record while they are selecting it to fill out a value on another form.

So, in short, the 'i' icon gets replaced by the dot.

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Tahir Ahmed · ‎08-23-2023

The icons indicate where the field definition was inherited from. Red square means the field is defined on a parent table and inherited to this table. Blue dot means the field was created on this table.

Raghav Kakkar · ‎08-23-2023

Hi Tahir,

Thank you so much for your response,

Unfortunately, that is not correct. Example:

This is a PRB ticket referencing Service Offering table.

Service offering reference list has blue dot in front of Parent field, which is inherited from Service table.

Tahir Ahmed · ‎08-23-2023

1. Data Change: A change has been made to the value of a field within the record. For example, if you have a table that tracks incidents, a blue dot might appear beside the "Priority" column if the priority of the incident has been updated.

2. Record Insertion: If a new record has been added to the table, a blue dot might appear beside one or more columns to indicate that the record is new and hasn't been viewed or processed yet.

Raghav Kakkar · ‎08-23-2023

Hi Tahir,

As you can see in the initial screenshot, blue dot appears in front of name field for all the users. Which is neither updated and nor was the user record created.