In Aware IM records are modified in the operation mode. In Aware IM terminology editing a record is editing an instance of a business object. In order to edit an instance of a business object the user has to find the instance first. This can be achieved by running a query – see How to look for records. If a query displays its results in a standard manner the instance of a business object can be edited by pressing the Edit button (see the “Standard Form of Query Results” section). This will bring up a form of the business object so that the user can change the attribute values on this form and submit it. If a query displays its result as a presentation the presentation layout may have a hyperlink defined that invokes an editing operation (see the “Setting Hyperlink Properties” section]). In this case clicking on the hyperlink will bring up the business object form.

It is also possible to configure a process that will find a particular instance of a business object and invoke the editing operation using the EDIT action of the Rule Language (see the “Adding/Editing Processes” section). This process might look something like this:

FIND Account WHERE Account.Name='John Smith'
EDIT Account 

The EDIT action will display a form of the business object and wait for the user to change the values and submit the form. For the user to start the process a menu item of the “Start Process” type has to be configured.