🆕 Bulk edit in table for single select and status field - BETA

[Leo]

Besides deleting multiple records in a table view, you can now select multiple records to edit their single select and status fields:

• Click the checkbox to the left of any row. (Hover in that area to make the checkbox visible.)
  • To select all records (rows), click the checkbox located at the very top left of the table, adjacent to the first row.
• Select a field in the menu that just appeared to edit for all selected records.

Notes: the beta version missing some improvements and features, will be released in January:

• adding a feature to close the bulk edit overlay when clicking outside. To deselect all records until this feature is developed, please click on the selection count displayed on the overlay
• introducing a “show more” feature to support apps with any number of single select or status fields without the overlay getting wider and wider, and considering a position change for better accessibility and readability.

Thanks again for the great suggestion from the community → 💙 Bulk Actions in Tables

UPDATE: the bulk edit has received some fine-tuning:

• Use “show more” by using the new ··· menu
• Close the overlay and deselect all records by clicking outside of it

[tomaz]

Santa is a little early this year!
This is just awesome.

[Leo]

Ho-ho-ho!
Delighted to hear it helps, @tomaz!
Thanks for your cheerful feedback.

[Roman]

Wooohooo, thanks so much guys!

What do you think, would it be possible to build a feature where i can select the first item, then press [shift] and select the tenth item and have everything in between also selected?

[dirk_s]

Hi @Leo - how can I select, which field to bulk edit? Seems random?

[1F2Ns]

@dirk_s

Are you seeing the fields in the bottom bar when you have items selected?

[tomaz]

@dirk_s I think you need to have status, single or multi select field within app.

[Leo]

UPDATE: The bulk edit has received some fine-tuning. See the details in the topic.

[1F2Ns]

Nice update to the UI

[Roman]

Nice update.
How can I set a category field from a value back to NULL?

[1F2Ns]

Right. An ‘unset’ option for fields that are not required. I can see where this could be valuable. Out of curiosity, do you have a specific use case.

[Roman]

We have entries with a special category. However, this is actually only set if it is used.

[Leo]

Hi @roman,

right, that is not yet possible. Could definitely be a low hanging feature to set the field to zero. Could you briefly post a feature request? Then we could include it directly in the next vote.

Cheers
Leo

[dirk_s]

Are bulk edit of relationships in the plans?

[andrew.cranston]

I wanted to bump this and second @dirk_s 's comment above. Bulk editing of relationships would be amazing!

[R.J]

Hi all,
I also want to bump this, as I sadly didn’t know this wasn’t implemented and discovered that we cannot set to null or blank a Single select field in bulk.

A real use case is when using this Single select as a “flag” to signal that an specific check that needs to be done to a record is pending. If this check has to be done daily, and you have like 500 records, you are now forced to use an automation for this instead of a “simple unmark” (or similar) option.

Thanks.
Best,
R.J.

[R.J]

Hi all,
As a quick workaround for this, I found this “fix” (although I am not sure if this could potentially break something/have unwanted consequences):

1. Create a new option in the field.

2. Set in bulk all the records to this option.

3. Delete the option.

I hope this “dirty” trick helps until a proper unset option is implemented.

Thanks.
Best,
R.J.

[melanietz]

Heyy, I wanted to bump this too. Bulk editing of multiple select and relationships would be great!

[Miguel]

Hi everyone.
Besides the status and relationship fields, it would be good to prepare the basis for other field types as well. Bulk edit is so powerful.