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

Tue Oct 11 16:18:10 UTC 2016

Awesome thanks Joel. Max, I think you can only batch edit from advanced
query if you have special permissions (I forget what they are called).
Joel, do you need special permissions to batch edit in the way you
describe? If so, it would be worth mentioning in docs.

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016, 18:12 Max Binder <mbinder at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> As far as I know, you could always Batch Edit from the Maniphest query
> page.
>
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/advanced/
>
> Then just search for what you want. In your example for a workboard, you
> would search for the workboard's title  (rather than hacking the URL). So,
> if I want to Batch Edit tasks on the Team-Practices board, I'd do a
> Maniphest query for Tags = Team-Practices, then Batch Edit the results, as
> selected.
>
> The real gem that you surfaced is selective Batch Editing tasks in a
> column, since you can't do a Maniphest query for columns, and even when you
> Batch Edit a column via the column dropdown, you can't deselect tasks.
> Super useful.
>
> Of course, if you're a not a member of Triagers
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/13/>, you can't Batch
> Edit, anyway. :)
>
>
> Potential use cases: bulk editing in triage, bulk estimation,
> recategorizing lots of tasks at once, etc.
>
>
> Batch editing hasn't really been updated as new Phab features have been
> introduced, so newer things like Story Points (estimation) are not an
> option.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Kevin Smith <ksmith at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> 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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