Change the status of multiple issues directly from the backlog

Melanie Coogan

Hi Jira Community,

Our team has been working hard to bring you an even quicker way of transitioning issues in Jira. Instead of navigating to our original bulk change experience, you can now select multiple issues and transition them to a new status directly from the backlog.

To transition multiple issues from the backlog:

1. Select multiple issues from the backlog. You can either:

   1. Use the issue checkboxes

   2. Hold Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac) while selecting issues

   3. Hold the Shift key to select a group of adjacent issues

2. Once you’ve chosen the issues you’d like to edit, select Edit > Status.

3. Select a status from the dropdown. If your selected issues don’t share the same statuses or transitions, this will open the bulk edit sidebar. Issues from the same workflow will be grouped together and you can select a new status for each group.

Now you can update the status of multiple issues and enjoy the feeling of moving all that hard work to ‘done’!

More about changing the status of multiple issues

Thanks from the Atlassian team

Joseph Lee_aj39p2

This is an awesome feature - this will be really helpful for clearing out duplicates in the backlog.

For those of you who are visual learners like me, here are the same instructions but in a step-by-step/guided walkthrough