Background UpRaise supports custom attributes for user profile that makes it easy to have as many as profile attributes added to the company directory to manage employee data. Going further we realised that our users want to edit/update the data in these profile attributes as and when their employee information is changed. For example, there is a team of 20 employees whose reporting manager has been changed. In this case, admins need to change that data one by one for these users. Although the field can be made editable to individuals, it is not generally accepted by all companies considering the policies and data integrity perspective. Considering above and many such reasons, we came up with a functionality to bulk edit user attributes. Let us see how it works Navigation Navigate to Company directory >> Users tab >> Actions >> Bulk edit all 200 users  Number of users shown in above option will differ based on how many users you have are filtered/how many users are listed on the Users tab.  | Note |
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Currently you can bulk edit is possible for maximum 500 users at a time. If you have selected more than 500 users are selected, proper messaging is displayed. Else user is taken to new tab to start the bulk edit process. |
How to bulk edit users?Once you click clicked on Bulk edit option, if number of users is 500 or less, user is taken to new tab in the window displaying a 3 step process to start with bulk edit function as mentioned below. Choose users Choose attributes Confirm
Choose usersIn this step you can , manually choose users or use bulk selection check box.  Chooses attributes In this step you will , specify what all changes you want to make be made in user attribute data.  In this step notice three columns - Attribute name - Select the attribute you wish to update that need to be updated for selected users Action - There are multiple actions displayed relevant to selected attribute name. Refere to the table below Value - Once you select Attribute name names and ActionActions are selected, possible values are displayed based on your selection.
Please refer to the below table to understand the actions available based on the type of field used in for different attributes at the time of attribute creation. For eg. If the attribute is Joining date, that means you had used date type field was used while creating that attribute. From the below table, Date type field related actions will be applicable for such attributes. Attribute Feild type | Action for each field type | How value is selected/added |
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Text field (Single line) | | | Text field (Multiple line) | | Change to User will see multiline text editor box to enter the new value of this attribute. On save, newly entered text will replace any existing text against the attribute for selected users.
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| Select list (Single choice) | | Change to User will see single select drop-down User can select any value from the available options. On save, any existing value against this attribute for selected users will get replaced by the value selected in this drop-down.
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| Select list (Multiple choice) | Add to existing Replace all with Find and remove these Clear all
| User will see multi-select drop-down User can select any values from the available options. The system will not show the value drop-down when ‘Clear all’ action is selected.
| Date picker | | Change to User will see a date picker to chose a date. On save, any existing value against the attribute for selected users shall get replaced by the value selected in this drop-down.
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| User picker (Single select) | | Change to User will see get a drop down of users to chose single user. On save, any existing user will be updated with newly selected user for this attribute for selected users
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| User picker (Multiple select) | Add to existing Replace all with Find and remove these Clear all
| | Numeric field | | Change to User will see a numeric input box to input any number. On save, any existing value against this attribute for selected users is replaced by the value new value.
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You can select While doing the bulk edit user, multiple attributes can be selected and then relevant add action and values needs to be selected with respect to each selected attribute every time. You can add Here as many as attributes you want can be added in this step. Add or remove multiple attribute rowsUsers can add multiple attributes to be updated at the same time. Click on +Add new option and add new attribute and its Action and Value.  You can also delete added Selected rows of different attribute rows can be deleted by clicking on Trash icon in front of the respective row. ConfirmationConfirmatioThis is the last screen, confirm all the selected updates you have selected Check if you wish to send an update needs to be sent to users about the changes respective to their profiles Click on Confirm.
 Clicking on 'Cancel' takes you back to the main users page. All the selections you made will be vanished and you can start the bulk edit process can be started over again. A few important points about this feature - Once confirmed, system take around 20 mins to update a batch users up to 500. The time completely depends on the data and the number of users you have selected to be updated. Once confirmed the process of updating user attribute data will keep running in the background and app can be used as usual, there won’t be any intervention in normal app usage. Currently all the changes made in profile attributes will be shown as 'System updated' change. In upcoming release, it will be changed with the relevant user name to track who made these changes. Only admins and super admins will have Edit bulk users option by default. In the Attribute name dropdown, ‘Name’ user attribute is excluded During the three step process, moving to Next or Previous page will retain the latest selections and data as it is.
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