Bulk Edit Documents

Bulk Edit Documents

You can edit the properties of many documents or files at the same time. To do this, perform the following:

 

·         On the Documents & Files page, click the library you’d like to work with.

 

You’ll see the files displayed as a list.

 

For selecting large amounts of files, it may be easier to select all, and then deselect the ones you want to exclude from editing. 

 

To Select all, click the check box in the heading of the list.

 

 

 

·         Select the files you want to edit, and click More actions » Bulk edit document properties.

 

 

The Bulk edit page appears displaying all the selected files.

 

 

·         You can apply the following to all selected images:

 

·         Common library
Click Change and select the library from the dropdown box that appears.
All files are moved to that library.

 

·         Common categories
Click Click to add common categories link.

 

·         Common tags

 

For each of the selected files, you can change the following:

 

·         Title

 

·         Description

 

When finished, click Save changes.
The system returns you to Documents & Files page.



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