Multi-select link to / batch-linking

WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND

Add an option to link objects in the right click context menu when using object multi-select

REAL WORLD USE CASES

The use case would be to use this when you want to link 5, 10, 20 or even more objects to a single object.

RECOMMENDED ALTERNATIVES

Currently you need to link each individual object separately which is time consuming.

this would be really useful to add a lot of objects to a collection.

@Filip can you describe your use case please a bit more deeply. It will help the team to relate the problem to ourself. Do you speak about multi-select mode in sets or about something else. How often and in what circumstances do you encounter this problem?

The post is referring to the feature in sets / collections where you can select multiple objects.

This is the menu you get when right clicking a single object:
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This is the menu you get when you select multiple objects:
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I would basically like these to be identical.
Why? Mostly because of collections, but there are other cases as well.
So I wanted to move some of my objects in sets to a collection recently, and I had to do it all one by one.
If you have a lot of objects that you want to add to a collection (maybe 20), you need to add them one by one which is very time consuming, and quite frankly, very annoying.
I’m guessing that most people just won’t bother in that case.

+1 (no more “true” vote ^^)

Or not, sorry, this will be one of the features that remains on hold for me until the team develops it for everyone :confused:.

Proposal of what could be done:
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Found myself in the same predicament just now because I imported an old database from Notion and I wanted to link some objects from the generic “Notion import” collection to another one, but it seems I’ll have to link all 35 objects individually… ouch.

EDIT: Maybe you could add a “Link to” button next to the “Unlink” option when you select multiple objects from a collection?

Is this feature on the plan?

Up!
Now we have batch-editing but we always cannot multi link to.

Any chance to add this to the next release?
It’s a full part of batch-edit our object!

WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND?

While we can now mass edit properties (WHOO), we still can’t mass-link objects

HOW COULD IT BE DONE?

Allow the option to link multiple objects to the same object.

REAL WORLD USE CASES

I have event and doing types, and I want to link them all to an entry type that is tagged as monthly review to be able to review my month at a glance, and I don’t want to sit there manually linking every object to the month in which it happened.

RECOMMENDED ALTERNATIVES

Manually linking everything–takes WAYY too long.

ADDITIONAL CONTEXT

None.

This would be wonderfull, also reminds me again about my idea of upgrading graph view into a node graph editor, to maybe select your nodes in graph and batch link them

@anton @Filip Hey any team, wondering if anyone has seen this? It’s still tagged with ‘mods to do’

Yes, I’ve seen it already, but I needed some time to try and find the duplicate topic. Seems like it’s the same feature request as this, right?

Oh it’s your own feature request too! Haha perfect. I hadn’t seen that but yes it’s the same. I just looked through the other thread and didn’t see any confirmations of that FR being worked on/planned/added to roadmap. What’s the word on it?

It’s planned, but we don’t have an ETA at the moment.

Right clicking one object reveals the button “add link to object”,
but selecting more than one does not show it anymore…

Single:

Two objects:

legitimately I need that option to set backlinks for thousands of objects xD I dont want (can’t) to do this by hand!

Thank you for your suggestion. It’s been added to our tracker and will be reviewed.