Hi Ryan,
This is fairly easy to do but I understand it's not very obvious if you're new to TracerPlus.
In your new session you would need to add an additional field that looks up the location in the session that contains all the asset details. This field should be a lookup field, this means that in the 'lookup options' tab of your field properties, you check the "enable lookups" checkbox and create the lookup relationship, probably based on the asset tag.
You then specify the field that should be looked up, in this case the location field. Since you want to update that field in the original session, you will also want to check the "Update source" checkbox.
So far this is pretty straightforward, but we're not there yet. The way this would work, is that each time you scan an asset, the Location field would be filled in with the data that is in the Assets session. The user would then have to change the location to their current location, and then submit the record to have the location field updated. That's not very efficient.
Instead, we will make the 'Lookup Location' field a
calculated field (under the 'General' tab in the field properties) and set it so that it takes whatever data is in the 'Location' field that the user selects.
Note that there is a 'Location' field where the user sets the current location, as well as a '
LocationLookup' field, that is linked to the Assets session and updates the information there. The LocationLookup field does not need to be visible to the user.
This way, if you set the 'Location' field to stay filled in after each scan (ie. uncheck the 'Clear on submit' checkbox in the 'After scan' tab), the Location field in the Assets session will be updated with the current location for each asset you scan, without having to manually change it for each asset.
There is a useful video on youtube about lookup fields in TracerPlus
here. Now, I'm not sure if there are any other changes needed for this to work with RFID reading, I've not done that myself yet. But the concept would be the same.
Hope this helps!