Bulk Edit of Pull Request Milestones Broken

[gdbjohnson]

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I just started becoming dependent on this workflow that has just been removed. I'm not sure what the purpose of bulk selection of PR's are now, since there doesn't seem to be any way to perform action on the selected list. I used to be able to bulk assign a milestone using the drop down shown in the image.

I want the ability to assign a milestone across multiple PR's. It's incredibly tedious to have to do it one at a time.

What does the list selection do at this point?

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[ldez]

The problem is with all elements: labels, milestones, etc.

I have a weird workaround:

1. Go to Issues tab
2. Check one issue
3. Go to Pull Request tab

Now you can update milestones, labels, etc.

If you refresh the page, the bulk edit will be broken again.

This is a very annoying bug.

[nijel]

Thanks for this tip; it is annoying but works as a workaround.

[atc0005]

This didn't work for me in current Google Chrome. Could be I missed a step?

[nijel]

The second step might be written as “Select one issue”. You just need to load the bulk edit thing on the issues listing, and it then works on the pull requests listing. No reloads or opening in new tab between.

[atc0005]

Thanks for the reply.

I did that, then I clicked on the Pull Requests "tab" in the UI. Perhaps I misunderstand and we're supposed to modify the default filter so that issues and pull requests are shown in the same listing first?

[RomainTFasst]

Thanks for the tip, you saved my day 😃

[nycnewman]

We see this problem as well. Users complaining about loss of bulk actions for PRs. Still works for issues

[tomasMizera]

Same here, I often want to label multiple PRs at once (e.g. label 'frozen') and now need to do it one by one 🫣

[mscuthbert]

A Duplicate issue #168857 focuses on labels. I noted there that this is probably related to the change in format for the Issues tag (where is:issue has issue colored, and is:open has become state:open, and the check boxes are a bit bigger) -- bulk editing works fine for issues -- but when "is:issue" is removed or changed to "is:pr" all checkboxes disappear.

Hopefully a transitional bug until PRs are moved to the same interface? (The new Issues editing -- with the "Bulk Update in Progress" slider, etc. -- is really amazing! Looking forward to that across PRs too.)

[gschueler]

Same problem, but when viewing a Milestone specifically, selecting any PR item shows now drop downs to bulk modify. Selecting Issues shows the dropdowns. The bulk edit controls are missing for Pull Requests.

1. Go to Issues/Pull Request
2. click Milestones tab
3. click a Milestone
4. in Open or Closed section, select multiple PRs. The bulk edit controls are missing.

[mscuthbert]

Seems fixed for now (at least for PRs not milestones on Chrome) - looks like someone found the old codebase and restored it. It's not using the new Issues interface.