For this tip I had to look back at the history of Edit Document Fields to find when this feature was added.  It became available in 5.0.0 when Edit Document Fields was upgraded to use the new formula options in ND 6.  The tip is allows me to be lazy and reduce my typing mistakes.

If you are not familiar, Edit Document Fields provides a means of up dating document fields without any agents.  It even displays the current value of the field that is being updated.  With 5.0 the ability to updated multiple documents was possible.  

For the tip lets say that I would like the ‘StoryTitle’ of the ‘Edit Document Fields 5.0.0 Code’ to have the same value as the ‘Edit Document Fields History’ document shown below.


The prompting for which field to change and the new value of the field happens before navigating through the documents.  


That is it!  Remember the default value of the field is determined base on the currently selected document.