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Changing Many Records at Once (Mass Edit)

Set, keep or clear fields on the selected records or on every record that matches your filter, review the count, apply; edited records return to Not Started.

Draft brief for authors. Replace with the final text; keep the task-page structure.

Page type: Task · Audience: Editor and up

Contains

  1. Select records (or set a filter) and choose Mass Edit.
  2. Scope: Selected rows (n) or All rows matching the filter (N); when only Selected rows is offered and why.
  3. Per field: Keep Values / Replace Values / Clear Values; "Current: …" under every field; value help and typeahead; the Action field offers the table's row actions; Find a field.
  4. Review: "n rows will be changed and set to Not Started, m Successful rows stay" → Apply.
  5. After Apply: the toast with the count; the "rows left the list" notice under a Status filter and Show All Statuses.
  • Clear Values empties the field in SAP when a Change row is processed.
  • One record: Mass Edit with one row selected.
  • Refused while a run owns the Task.

Related information: fields-cleared-in-sap, record-locked, messages-staging, processing-now.

Source in the product repository: .claude/rules/staging-app.md "Mass Edit" (D96, D167, LIVE-F-28), app/staging/webapp/i18n/i18n.properties (massEdit*).

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