Ability to bulk update sub-items

[cbrunskill (Catherine Brunskill)]

I’d like the ability to bulk update sub-items under multiple items.

For example, if I duplicate a board that is used annually by our organization, I can shift all the due dates by 365 days to update all the dates for the new year. However, that change doesn’t apply to sub-items, and I have to go through and separately update the sub-items for each individual item that has them. This is time consuming and seems like there should be the option to “select all sub-items in board”.

This feature has been requested in platform discussions by other users over the years, but I don’t think it’s moved to an actual feature request, so adding on behalf of us all.

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Mass update sub-items in under multiple items all at once

Thanks Dani. I’m actually trying to update individual sub-items under several different items. So using the titles in your screenshot, I have Test Item A with subtasks 1, 2, and 3. Then I have Test Item B with the same sub tasks, 1, 2, 3 and so on. After creating everything I found out I need to change subtask 2 for all test items. It doesn’t seem like I can select sub items under multiple Test Items. I can only do as you did and select subtask under one test item at a time. So I ended up having…

[Fantasy-Media-Team]

Hey @cbrunskill

We developed an app called subitem automations that provides robust automation capabilities to subitems. Here’s an example of how it can be applied in this case →

You can make sure that changes in the parent item are reflected in its subitems, that way when you change the items, the subitems will follow.

You can find it in the monday.com marketplace in the platform or here - monday.com: Apps Marketplace

Hope that helps!

[cbrunskill (Catherine Brunskill)]

Thanks! We were hoping for a built-in solution within Monday.com, rather than using a third-party app. I appreciate it, though!