I have hundreds of profiles I would like to give a number of "none." Doing it one at a time would be unwieldly. Is there anyway to flag them and do them all at once?

Quoting Lewis_Prothero:

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Probably "BulkEdit" can do this.

BulkEdit can clear the collection number with "Collection/Flagged/Clear Collection#",
but so far I have not been able to find a way to set or clear the "None" checkbox. I checked my code again today to refresh my memory. Couldn't do it. There is a longstanding request to Ken to either put this in the product or allow plugins to do it (or both!).

Quoting Ken Cole:

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You should be able to implement this in BulkEdit by setting the collection number to -1.  If that doesn't work, please open a support ticket so this isn't missed for 3.8.

Ha! You know I almost tried a negative number. I did try null and then gave up. If this works, I will update BE very soon. Thanks Ken.

Edit: Well collection number is set as a string in the API, so I tried "-1" but that didn't work. So I will submit a ticket unless I missed your drift. I suggest passing "" to clear, as it is, and passing null to set the None flag. I'll submit this idea in the ticket.

After I just spent a while sitting around waiting for Bulk Edit to load the 2300+ titles I wanted to unnumber. I guess I will tag them for later.

Quoting Ken Cole:

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Unfortunately as you found this doesn't work, and there's no way to do it currently.  Added to the list for 3.8.

Sorry to dig up an old thread, but Ken, did this ever get added to 3.8? I still can't seem to find how to mark "None" for collection number on multiple items.

Thanks.

Quoting Ace_of_Sevens:

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After I just spent a while sitting around waiting for Bulk Edit to load the 2300+ titles I wanted to unnumber. I guess I will tag them for later.

Whoa, I'm way late seeing this post. Sorry about that. The BE docs suggest doing things in batches to avoid the nonlinear performance hit when working on large collections (probably memory utilization). a few batches of say 500 or less would have been better.

There is now a "Collection/Flagged/Clear Collection#" menu provided by BulkEdit. I'm not sure if it was there when you had this problem, but that would have been the fastest way to do it, rather than loading the spreadsheet.

And now I see I need to add a "None" option for the interim until Ken updates Copy/Paste.

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Quoting mediadogg:

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And now I see I need to add a "None" option for the interim until Ken updates Copy/Paste.

Just checking, any chance you added this to BulkEdit yet?  Thanks...

Oh drat, I just updated BulkEdit and totally forgot that one  . Sorry about that. Will do ASAP. Hopefully today.

Edit: Ok, done. See V2.41. Actually I had already done the code, and was waiting for Ken's fix in 3.8. He did it, but then I forgot to expose my code. So thanks for the reminder.