Bulk edit cards

[ohthehugemanatee]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I often want to apply the same field value to multiple cards in a board. Eg assign a user to these given 5 cards, or set the due date on these 3 cards. Presently I have to go through the edit process for each card individually.

Describe the solution you'd like

• Hold down ctrl (or long press on mobile) to enter multi-select mode.
• As you click on each card it becomes highlighted along with the others in the selection.
• In multi-select mode a new button appears at the top "edit selected...".
• Clicking this button opens a limited version of the add/edit card interface, with only the fields which it makes sense to bulk edit
  • Separate fields for add and remove tags
  • Separate fields for add and remove users
  • Due date
  • Add attachment
  • Add a comment.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Azure DevOps and Jira have another UI approach to the bulk edit interface, where the user selects fields to modify from a dropdown. e.g. Note that "comment" is included by default, since good practice in a project management environment would be to leave a note if you make bulk changes. That is probably not the case for Deck.

• It might also be interesting to allow default values on a per-board level. e.g. if the entire project should be assigned to one user, or have a given due date. I wouldn't consider it a part of this feature request, however.

[mattc-solutions]

I'd like to second this request, and build off of @ohthehugemanatee 's recommended implementation.

In addition to CTRL/long-press, there could be a menu option on desktop and/or mobile to activate "Select Multiple" mode, after which you could single-click/short press to select multiple cards. This may be easier for users who are less tech-savvy and comfortable with keyboard shortcuts.

Menu options for "select all" or "select all in list" on a board would also be quite handy, especially if used in conjunction with filtering by label. For example, I could highlight all cards tagged with a certain label and update their due dates together.

[jficz]

Menu options for "select all" or "select all in list" on a board would also be quite handy,

I would even go one step further and add quick actions to the lists themselves, such as one-click assign or one-click due date the whole list without the necessity to select the cards.