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

Thu Oct 6 22:29:27 UTC 2016

Cool! Can you (Joel) add it to our phab docs, so I'll be able to find it
later, if/when I need it? (If not, hopefully someone else will.)

Kevin Smith
Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Joel Aufrecht <jaufrecht at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> 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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