<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-d8d548eb-9b0d-f75a-8816-6bda4e346d20"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">I saw this workaround in passing (</span><a href="https://secure.phabricator.com/T11286#184572" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Upstream T11286#184572</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">) 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.</span></p><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Navigate to the board you want to batch-edit</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">At the top of the column on the board that you want to batch-edit, click the dropdown arrow and then </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Batch Edit Tasks...</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Hack the URL.  From</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://local.phacility.com/maniphest/">http://local.phacility.com/maniphest/</a></span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">batch/?board=117&batch=</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">274%2C250%2C265</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">...replace </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">batch/?board=X&batch=</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> with </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">?ids=</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://local.phacility.com/maniphest/">http://local.phacility.com/maniphest/</a></span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">?ids=</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">274%2C250%2C265</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Click </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Select All</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> at the bottom of the list.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Shift-click tasks to deselect. </span></p></li></ol><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">When done deselecting, click </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Batch Edit Selected</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> at the bottom of the list.<br><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">This also works for all of the tasks on a board (click the <b>Manage</b> gear icon at the top right of the board, then <b>Batch Edit Visible Tasks...</b>), but all of the columns are collapsed into the single query result list so it's not as useful a workaround.<br><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Potential use cases: bulk editing in triage, bulk estimation, recategorizing lots of tasks at once, etc.<br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#888888"><div><b>-- <br>Joel Aufrecht<br></b></div><div>Team Practices Group<b><br></b></div><div>Wikimedia Foundation<br></div></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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