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Select more than one task and a bar appears at the bottom of the screen. From there you can change them all at once.

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Select tasks

On the project Board tab:
1

Hold Cmd (or Ctrl) and click a card

The card is marked as selected instead of opening.
2

Keep Cmd-clicking to add more

The bulk bar appears as soon as one card is selected.
3

Press Escape to clear

Or click Clear on the bar.
A plain click still opens the task. Only Cmd-click or Ctrl-click selects.

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The bulk bar

The bar sits at the bottom of the screen and reads “N tasks selected”.

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Staged versus immediate

Priority, assignee and tag are staged. You pick them, then click Apply to N tasks. Nothing is written until you do. Move to…, Duplicate and Delete act straight away – Move as soon as you pick a section, Duplicate on click, Delete after the confirmation. Apply stays disabled until at least one of the three staged fields is set.

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Set priority, assignee or tag

1

Select the tasks

Cmd-click each card.
2

Choose the values

You can set any combination of priority, assignee and one tag in the same pass.
3

Click Apply to N tasks

A toast confirms “Updated N tasks.” The selection clears and the dropdowns reset.
Add tag only ever adds. A task that already carries the tag is left alone, and no tag is ever removed by a bulk edit. To remove a tag, open the task and use the chip’s X.

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Move tasks to another section

Pick a section from Move to…. Every selected task moves there and is appended after whatever is already in that section, so nothing you had ordered is disturbed. Moving into a section whose category is Done completes each task. If any of them repeat, their next occurrences are created – once each, not once per click. See /tasks/recurring-tasks. A move is refused if any selected task belongs to a different project from the target section. The whole move is rolled back together – you never get a half-applied batch.

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Duplicate tasks

Duplicate copies each selected task into the same section. Each copy:
  • Is titled <original title> (copy)
  • Keeps the priority, assignee, collaborators, dates, tags, client visibility, billable flag and estimates
  • Copies the original’s subtasks, one level, under the new task
  • Gets its own task number
Copies do not carry over comments, attachments, tracked time or dependencies.

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Delete tasks

1

Click Delete

A confirmation modal opens, naming how many tasks will go.
2

Type the number if asked

From 10 tasks upward, the modal asks you to type the count before the confirm button turns on. Smaller selections are a plain confirm.
3

Confirm

A toast confirms “Deleted N tasks.”
Each selected task and its subtasks move to Trash together. Restoring the parent later brings back exactly the subtasks that went with it. See /tasks/delete-and-restore-a-task.

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Limits

A selection over 500 is refused with a message naming the limit. Split it into smaller passes. Every bulk action is written to the audit trail as a single entry with its count, so a bulk change is traceable afterwards. See /settings/overview.

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Example

Priya Raman is closing out the discovery phase on Bluebird Coffee – Website Redesign. She opens the Board tab and Cmd-clicks the six cards still sitting in Discovery. The bar reads “6 tasks selected”. She picks Sarah Lin under Set assignee and Design under Add tag, then clicks Apply to 6 tasks. A toast confirms “Updated 6 tasks.” She then picks Done from Move to… and the six cards jump columns. One of them was a weekly retainer check-in that repeats, so its next occurrence appears in To do with next week’s date.

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Permissions

Bulk actions use the same capabilities as their single-task versions, plus one of their own.
task.bulkEdit is a separate capability from task.edit. A Member can edit tasks one at a time but cannot change many at once. The reason is blast radius – one mis-click on a bulk bar changes hundreds of rows.
Every id in the selection is re-checked against your workspace before anything is written. A task that is not yours aborts the whole batch.

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What happens next

  • Assignees who gained work are notified in the usual way.
  • Moves into a Done section fire completion, including any recurrence.
  • Deleted tasks appear in Trash and stop counting toward the project’s task count.
  • The board redraws as the changes land, so column counts stay correct.

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Common questions

Selection lives on the Board tab. Open the board, Cmd-click the cards, and use the bar.
Cmd-click each card you want. Filter the board first to narrow it, then select what is left.
Not from the bulk bar. It covers priority, assignee, one tag, section, duplicate and delete. Dates and estimates are per task.
Selection happens on one project’s board. A bulk delete does handle tasks from several projects correctly if a selection ever spans them, decrementing each project’s own count.
No. It moves each task and its subtasks to Trash, which is restorable. The permanent step is separate.

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Troubleshooting

You do not hold task.bulkEdit. Ask an Owner, Admin or Project Manager.
One of the selected tasks belongs to a different project from the section you picked. The message names the offending task. Batches are all-or-nothing.
The limit for one action is 500 tasks. Split the work into smaller passes.
You are deleting 10 or more tasks, so you have to type the count first. The number is shown in the modal.
Make sure you are on the Board tab. Selection is a board behaviour.

Task views

Where selection lives.

Filters and sorting

Narrow the board before you select.

Delete and restore a task

What bulk delete actually does.

Task tags

Why Add tag only ever adds.

Task permissions

Why bulk edit is its own capability.