Bulk Edit Visible Table

I have a large table with 1,000s of rows that is being used to help us to quickly categorize different products into to 5 different buckets. To “tag” them to the right category the user reviews 15 different column variables (it is human judgement work not formulaic). At the top I have added many filters so users can play around to filter the rows that they want to put into a category (feels a bit like Lumon).

Once the users tweaked the filters to their preferred view, I would like to use a button to bulk edit or tag the correct category for every line item shown in that view.

I created a button that auto fills the category but the problem is that it fills out every row and I can’t see how to tell it to only fill out the rows in the view and not the rows hidden by the filter.

Because we have so many filters I think it will be very messy to build a huge formula to replicate every filter (not even sure this is possible).

Is there an easier way to just change the value only in the “visible” rows? I tried changing only in table view but it also changed hidden rows.

Hi Chris,

The modifyrow in your button, does it modify the table, or the view?

On my phone so cannot check, but if you use the view, it should only modify visible rows.

P

I definitely modified the view and not the base table but I can double check and if it still won’t work I can upload a sample to demonstrate. Thanks for quick response

Hi @Chris_DeAngelis ,

It does work:

Current at Risk is a view of the db Spreadsheet table, which has been filtered to 1 entry out of 257.

P