Change a field on many rows at once

If you can edit orders, Planning now has a checkbox on every row. Tick the ones you want and a bar appears at the bottom of the screen: Edit field changes one field across all of them, and Archive archives the lot. Shift-click to take everything between two rows, and the checkbox in the header takes every row the list shows. One change covers up to 1,000 rows.

Pick the field, pick the value with the same picker you use in the order drawer, and the preview updates as you go: how many rows change, how many are left alone and why (already set to that value, not something you have permission to edit, or a field that does not apply to that kind of row), and the old and new value side by side for the first 20 rows, by name. Nothing is written until you confirm.

Fields you can change: project, route, tags, assigned people, cost code, due date, scheduled start, scheduled end, cycle time and duration. Dates can be set or moved by a number of days, each row from its own date. Tags and assigned people can be added or removed without disturbing what a row already has. Moving a scheduled date moves the whole schedule, so durations and dependencies stay intact.

Archive is its own button with its own confirmation. It shows how many rows will be archived and which are skipped before you confirm. The Projects list has the same checkboxes and Archive. Once you tick a project there, the bar offers Select all matching, which takes every project your search and filters match rather than only the ones loaded on screen, up to 5,000 at once. The Orders, Projects and Routes tabs of the bin Restore a whole selection the same way.

Large edits keep running after you confirm. A card in the corner counts the rows off as they go. Leave the page or reload the tab and the work carries on.

When it finishes, a notification says what changed and how many rows it reached. If an edit stops before it finishes, the notification says it failed, and the rows it had already reached keep their change. Settings > System Log keeps a full entry for every bulk edit: who asked, what changed, and every row that was skipped or failed, by name. If you have access to the System Log, clicking the notification opens that entry. There is an email for it under Background tasks in your notification settings.