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david_wendelken

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Multi-item edit at the same time
« on: November 05, 2005, 01:20:19 pm »

I would like to be able to select a number of same-type items and edit them all with a single edit.

Here's an example of how it would work:

I select a number of requirements and edit their properties.  (Currently, only one of them gets picked for the edit operation.)  I would set the properties that I want to all have the same value, perhaps the stereotype field, or the author field.

Of course, it's not just that simple!
Fields that are unique identifiers would be grayed out, I would not be able to change them, and those fields would not appear on the multi-item property sheet.

Where all the items have the exact same value, that value would display in the field.  Where they did not have the same values, some visual indicator of "different values' would be presented.  (Cross-hatching the field or some such.)


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Re: Multi-item edit at the same time
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2005, 02:32:07 am »
Has been asked ever since. Probably we have to wait for 7.0 :-/

julian

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Re: Multi-item edit at the same time
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2005, 01:32:15 am »
Can I second this? I was a little disappointed that this wasn't in 6.0 when I moved from 4.5.

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Re: Multi-item edit at the same time
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2005, 02:58:40 am »
Can I third this ?

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Re: Multi-item edit at the same time
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2005, 12:55:26 pm »
Fourthing this.

Thanks

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Re: Multi-item edit at the same time
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2014, 02:10:06 pm »
not in EA 11
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Re: Multi-item edit at the same time
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2014, 03:39:54 pm »
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not in EA 11
Let me make s prediction: not in V12

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Re: Multi-item edit at the same time
« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2014, 02:25:13 am »
..which is why we wrote the Excel bit of eaDocX to solve exactly this problem. Export a whole load of stuff to Excel (eaDocX / Open in Excel) then edit it using all the Excel bells & whistles, then just save the result back into EA.
« Last Edit: September 17, 2014, 02:25:39 am by ianemitchell »
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