[teampractices] FYI: Phabricator workaround for manually selecting tasks to bulk-edit

Thu Oct 6 17:35:12 UTC 2016

I saw this workaround in passing (Upstream T11286#184572
<https://secure.phabricator.com/T11286#184572>) and wanted to highlight
it.  If you want to batch-edit some but not all tasks in a column or
workboard, there is a way to get shift-click power to select and deselect
individual items.

   1.

   Navigate to the board you want to batch-edit
   2.

   At the top of the column on the board that you want to batch-edit, click
   the dropdown arrow and then Batch Edit Tasks...
   3.

   Hack the URL.  From
   1.

      http://local.phacility.com/maniphest/batch/?board=117&batch=
      274%2C250%2C265
      2.

      ...replace batch/?board=X&batch= with ?ids=
      3.

      http://local.phacility.com/maniphest/?ids=274%2C250%2C265
      4.

   Click Select All at the bottom of the list.
   5.

   Shift-click tasks to deselect.

When done deselecting, click Batch Edit Selected at the bottom of the list.

This also works for all of the tasks on a board (click the *Manage* gear
icon at the top right of the board, then *Batch Edit Visible Tasks...*),
but all of the columns are collapsed into the single query result list so
it's not as useful a workaround.

Potential use cases: bulk editing in triage, bulk estimation,
recategorizing lots of tasks at once, etc.

*-- Joel Aufrecht*
Team Practices Group
Wikimedia Foundation
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