BulkEdit App package download now available

by Martin Laukkanen | Jul 11, 2019 | BulkEdit

Due to popular demand, I have made the Bulk Edit .app package available for free direct download from the Bulk Edit page. The App package is designed for On-Prem installations in offline environments running Project Server 2013, 2016 and 2019.

Update to Bulk Edit Available (v1.2.0.23)

by Martin Laukkanen | Oct 4, 2017 | BulkEdit

Bug fixes

• When starting Bulk Edit it would be stuck with a message: “Loading…” indefinitely.
• When changing a date custom field value the resulting value is sometimes the day before the selected date.
• Clicking the Reload Data button could cause date picker fields to become un-editable.
• With thousands of projects in the list scrolling could become corrupted resulting in display issues.

Installation

Open site contents in PWA to find the update link:

If you don’t see the update link, then open Details on the app tile to find it.

New features for Bulk Edit v1.2

by Martin Laukkanen | May 5, 2017 | BulkEdit

A new version of Bulk Edit has been released and can be downloaded immediately from the app store! In this version I have implemented many of the most requested features and changed some of the old, so read ahead and try it out.

New Features

• Save changes by row. Now by default all changes are saved one row at a time not and not one cell at a time.
• Defer saving of all changes. Optionally you can apply changes only a button click, this allows for you to change many projects at once before applying any changes.
• Improved localization. Dates and numbers now are shown in your locale format configured in PWA.
• Force check-in button. A shortcut button has been added to open the force check-in page in PWA.
• Per-user view changes saved. By default the last used field configuration will be displayed when you open Bulk Edit.
• No more double-click to edit fields. Now clicking on any cell or tabbing to that cell will allow immediate editing.

Bug fixes

• Sorting order of the custom field filter view is now alphabetical.
• On initial load the app sometimes failed to load data and would be stuck “Loading…” indefinitely.

Installation

Open site contents in PWA to find the update link:

If you don’t see the update link, then open Details on the app tile to find it.

Update to Bulk Edit Available (v1.0.4.9)

by Martin Laukkanen | Sep 30, 2016 | BulkEdit

A new version of BulkEdit is available now on the App Store, check site contents in PWA for the upgrade link to install it.

Bug Fixes

• Fixes to non-English language users who see “Loading data” that never ends.
• Fixes to some cases where custom field updates error with “Sorry the update failed, ensure that the project is not checked out”

Note: Some cases still exist where Bulk Edit does not detect which projects are checked out, and so will fail to update those fields. This appears to affect non-English Project Online users only, but if you see this please report it in the Support forum.

Additionally I am working on a workaround to address an issue which appears to cause approximately 1 in 5 Project Online field updates (ie Office365 JSOM API calls) to fail due to too many requests which the Microsoft servers cannot handle. The only workaround available at the moment is to retry. Fortunately this problem does not affect on-prem 2013 or 2016 Project Server customers.

If you are affected by this like most of my European Project Online customers are, then do what I do and speak to your Microsoft account manager (or customer’s account manager) about the poor performance of Project Online next chance you get! (feel free to quote me: Martin Laukkanen)

Changes

• Updates to fully support Microsoft changes in Project Online API to support Project Server 2016.
• New Welcome Screen for first time users.

Installation

Open site contents in PWA to find the update link: