You can select several tasks in the list views in awork and carry out certain actions.
You can do this under My tasks, the list view of tasks in a project and in the Task views.
To do this, select the tasks or entire lists using the checkboxes to the left of the task list that appear when you move the mouse over the task lines.
A bar now appears at the bottom of the window, showing how many tasks are selected and giving you various actions. Here you can deselect the tasks, then the bar disappears again, or you can carry out an action on all selected tasks.
The following actions are available.
Available actions
Change task status
Changes the status of the selected tasks. This action is only possible if the selected tasks all belong to the same project, because the task statuses can be different for each project.
Change assignee
Changes the assignee for all selected tasks. The assignee can also be removed.
Change deadline
Changes the deadline for all selected tasks. The deadline can also be removed.
Change project
Changes the project for all selected tasks. A new task status must also be selected here, because the task statuses can be completely different in the new project. A list can also be selected to which the tasks are to be moved.
Change list
Moves all selected tasks to another list. The tasks are automatically removed from all other lists. However, there is also the option to leave the tasks in the current lists and only add them to the selected list.
Change tags
Adds a tag to all selected tasks.
Change activity
Changes the activity for all selected tasks. Here you can also select whether the same activity should also be changed for all times entered on the task.
Set prio
Changes the priority for all selected tasks.
Delete tasks
Deletes the selected tasks.
Necessary permissions
In the Task views, global editing permissions are required for tasks in order to be able to edit tasks simultaneously from the freely defined filters.
In the list view of the tasks of a project, editing rights are only required for the tasks of the project.
Under My tasks, each user can edit their own private and project tasks simultaneously.
What is currently not possible?
Currently, no other actions are possible that are not listed above.
Furthermore, it is currently not possible to select and edit multiple tasks from the Dashboard, Board or Timeline view at the same time.