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Is it possible to edit multiple work items for an attribute that is an enumeration list?

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Janet Charbonneau (85●26●54) | asked Dec 03 '14, 5:49 p.m.
I have a customized work item with an attribute called "Build List".  This attribute is an enumeration list.  I need to be able to select multiple work items at a time and update them by adding an additional Build List to their values in the Build List attribute.  Is there a way to update multiple work items for an attribute that is an enumeration list?

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Ken Tessier (841●1●7) | answered Dec 08 '14, 5:12 p.m.
If you edit the Column Display of a query that returns the work items that you want to edit so that the attribute is displayed in the query results, you can then select the work items, right-click in the attribute column of the results, and select Change attribute-name to the desired value.

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Janet Charbonneau commented Dec 09 '14, 9:56 a.m.

Ken, it doesn't give you that option to Change attribute-name for the attributes that are enumeration lists.  I was hoping there was another way of doing this or a work around.
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Donald Nong (14.5k●4●14) | answered Dec 08 '14, 5:46 p.m.
As far as I can see, it is not possible to update an enumeration list attribute of multiple work items in the query result. In the web client, the column that can be multi-updated is designated with a green cross. If you don't see such green cross for a column, it cannot be updated for multiple work items at the same time.
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N Z (362●21●27) | answered Dec 09 '14, 10:13 p.m.
 As Donald says, it probably won't be possible from the web.
I haven't verified, but the only thing which may work is to do it using the eclipse client, i.e., export the query into a csv file, update the attributes, and then reimport updating existing id's.
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Georges Oneissy (53●5●22) | answered Mar 30 '15, 3:21 a.m.
 Can you reimport csv files? will it update the work items?
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Janet Charbonneau commented Mar 30 '15, 9:54 a.m.

I have tried to update it via an import from a .csv file and it does not work.  It ends up putting multiple "N/A"s into the attribute.

Georges Oneissy commented Mar 30 '15, 10:05 a.m.

 Thank you Janet. It would have saved me a lot of time tho.

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