Over time, some of our subscribers have experienced a messy amount of Custom Fields in their AssetAccountant fixed asset register.
This happens because:
- importing mistakes being made and custom fields being regularly changed or even duplicated (i.e. with different spelling), or
- simply the evolution of your fixed asset data over time making some custom fields redundant.
The recommended way to remove custom field duplications or removal of chosen custom fields altogether is downloading the Asset Export report for your affected assets, then removing all the extra columns that do not contain the Custom Fields you want to keep.
By tidying up the custom fields in the spreadsheet, leaving only the custom fields columns you would like to store in AssetAccountant, then you can use the Bulk Actions option of "Bulk Custom Fields" with the spreadsheet and choose "Replace" instead of "Preserve" in the option below when you get to this screen:
