Change Element Types in Bulk

[Transmission Man]

I'm doing a lot of imports lately, and it would be really nice if I could select multiple elements and change their types at once.  The MDG for Visio, for example, is not very ganular in it's ability to parse in the elements; when selecting the import as deployment, hundreds of elements came in as nodes with server stereotypes.  some are correct, others are not.  

[Geert Bellekens]

cj,

You can do some (sort of) bulk changes using the element list (although the type is not one of them)
The other options are to write a little script/program using the API, or even by editing the database directly.

Geert

[fwoolz]

Echoing Geert:

I have on a few occasions done copy-and-paste editing of a bunch of elements directly from the database tool; this can come in very handy when bulk changes are necessary. For .EAP files this can be done from Access by linking the tables in the .EAP file to a database created in Access. One word of caution - if you use this method, make sure your changes don't result in unintelligible or inconsistent results!

Fred W