More bulk record actions (e.g. Change Creator)

✋ Feature Requests
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I frequently need to perform some actions on multiple records at once. Currently I can select multiple records and Delete, Publish/Unpublish. These are the only multi-record actions right now.

I would really like to be able to Change Creator as a multi-record action. This is because frequently I help clients out by setting up their actual content for them. So a lot of the records in the system are created by my Admin user. Then, when I want to hand the site over, I go through and Change Creator to their Editor role (on the records they should have full rights for – 95% of the records). Of course, an alternative would be to log in with them in the first place, and create their records using their account. This isn’t practical though because in development I need to be logged in with the Admin user and changing between user accounts constantly would be really slow.

For bonus points, it would be really neat if we can also Edit a Specific Field across multiple records. For instance I may have many records all with a category field. Now I need to change all those records from the category Cats to Dogs. I have to go through every record and do this individually. It would be great to multi-edit this across records.

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Hey @convincible,

Good requests!

As workarounds in the meantime, there is this community-made bulk editor plugin: Bulk Editor - Plugins — DatoCMS

And you can also use the CMA with a simple script to do any sorts of bulk updates you want, including both changing the creator and editing a field: Update an upload — Upload — Content Management API — DatoCMS

I want to leave the feature request up because it totally makes sense, but in the meantime, please let me know if you need any help with the workarounds.