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

[Max Binder]

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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