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

[Max Binder]

Actually, I've realized that there is a new function that is better than
what I described. If you do a batch edit, it will create a page called a
"Bulk Job" with a number. On that page is a "Continue" menu item, which
leads to a Maniphest query of all the affected tasks. I imagine this was
implemented to spare the URL of up to 100 IDs, which is no bueno. :)

I've updated the documentation again.

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Max Binder <mbinder at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Update on this: Batch editing boards and columns still lets you manipulate
> the URL, but batch editing via "Advanced Search" in the Maniphest does not
> change the URL (so there are no IDs to manipulate). This means that the
> more random (and often larger) searches, typically the ones you might want
> to reverse using this hack, are back to being risky,
>
> I've updated documentation.
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Andre Klapper <aklapper at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2016-10-11 at 16:18 +0000, Arthur Richards wrote:
>> > 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).
>>
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Batch_edits :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> andre
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