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title: "Understanding Bulk Status Change"
slug: "understanding-bulk-status-change"
updated: 2025-09-14T14:28:00Z
published: 2025-09-14T14:28:00Z
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://documentation.encodify.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Understanding Bulk Status Change

## Overview

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**Bulk Status Change** enables you to update the workflow status of multiple items simultaneously, saving effort and ensuring consistency. Instead of changing each item individually, you can progress a group of items to the next stage of a process in one step. This feature is especially useful for keeping multiple items aligned, such as moving a batch of items from *Draft* to *Review* at the same time. Read more about [Workflow](/v1/docs/workflow-1).

## How to configure Bulk Status Change

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> [!WARNING]
> **Note:** Bulk Status Change currently works inconsistently with [Conditional Workflows](/v1/docs/conditional-workflows). Wrong settings can be applied to the workflow when multiple transitions are available.

To enable **Bulk Status Change**, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to **Site Configuration → {Module} → Workflow**.
2. Locate the transition you want to update.
3. Click **Edit**.
4. Select **Enable Bulk Status Change**.
5. Click **OK** to apply your changes.

## Understanding Bulk Status Change

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> [!WARNING]
> **Note:** A user will need to have Read, Edit and Bulk Edit access to be able to transition the workflow in bulk. Where status settings are applied a user who has Edit access to the current item status but no Edit access to the target item status can still perform the status transition, but they will lose access to the item in accordance with the status permissions.

### Where to find Bulk Status Change

**Bulk Operations** allow you to perform actions on multiple items simultaneously, directly from a [workspace](/v1/docs/workspaces) or [module view](/v1/docs/module-views). To get started, select the items you want to work with. Once selected, the **Bulk Operations toolbar** will appear at the top of the screen.

If the selected items support **Bulk Status Change,**the ![](https://cdn.document360.io/3a63e0a8-1221-4570-aaa1-d43f9b95a612/Images/Documentation/Screenshot 2025-09-14 at 09.05.30.png) **Status Transition** button will become active. If the selected items are in different statuses, this button will be disabled

### Bulk Status Change Modal

After selecting the items you wish to transition, the Workflow Change Status modal will appear, allowing you to confirm the transition. Click **Save** to apply the changes and complete the workflow transitions.

> [!WARNING]
> **Important:** Editing metadata or uploading files is not supported during a bulk status transition. These options will not be available in the workflow interface when performing bulk transitions.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/3a63e0a8-1221-4570-aaa1-d43f9b95a612/Images/Documentation/Screenshot 2025-09-14 at 09.11.16.png)

An image highlighting the Bulk Status Change Modal