Available from Release 5. Bulk actions are new in Release 5. Organisations move to Release 5 on their release weekend, from 9 October.
From Release 5, you can select several items in a list and handle them all at once, instead of one by one.
Select items
Tick the checkbox of each item you want. A bar appears showing how many items you selected and the actions you can take. Click × to clear the selection.
What you can do
List | Actions |
Stories, including the stories in a folder | Change status, Duplicate, Move to folder, Delete |
Story Templates | Duplicate, Remove from templates |
Story Management (Administrators) | Transfer ownership, Delete |
My Media | Move to Company Library, Delete |
Company Library | Delete |
Backgrounds | Delete |
Users | Deactivate, Delete |
Folders themselves and guest domains can't be selected in bulk. There's no select-all, and Shift + click doesn't select a range.
Change status
Set all selected stories to Draft, Temporary Publish or Permanent Publish. Permanent Publish is only available if you're allowed to publish permanently.
Duplicate
Choose once where all the copies go: My Stories or a folder. Each copy starts as a Draft.
Move to Company Library
Moves the selected files from My Media to the Company Library, where they appear as Uncategorised until you give them a category. Web pages (links) can't be moved. You need permission to add media to the Company Library.
Deactivate users
Deactivated users can no longer log in. Their stories and media stay where they are. You can't deactivate yourself.
When an action is greyed out
You don't have the rights for at least one of the selected items. Remove that item from the selection to continue.
If something fails
Compose completes the items it can and then tells you which ones failed.
In the Composer
Scenes (new in Release 5): hold Shift or Ctrl (⌘ on Mac) and click scenes on the same screen in the left rail. Right-click the selection to copy, paste, duplicate, save to My Scenes or delete them together. You can also give them all the same background or transition in the property panel. The screensaver scene can't be included.
Assets: hold Shift and click assets to move, copy, duplicate or delete them together.