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Select issues

Take actions on one or more issues.

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Overview

Highlighting or selecting one issue both allow you to take actions on the issue using keyboard shortcuts, the command menu, or right-click to bring up the contextual menu.

By default, no issue is selected when you open a board or list of issues.

Highlight an issue

  • Hover over the issue with your cursor until the issue is highlighted
  • Use  /  or J / K to navigate the page to the issue

Select issues

  • Once an issue is highlighted, press X shortcut
  • Hold Shift and click your mouse on the issue
  • Hover near the left edge of an issue to reveal its checkbox

Select multiple issues

Once an issue is selected, use the navigation to highlight another issue and press X.

To select multiple consecutive issues:

  • Hold down Shift after selecting the first issue, then use the  /  keys to increase the selected range one issue at a time
  • Use filters to refine the issue list first, then use Cmd/Ctrl A to select all issues on a board or list

Clear selection

Press Esc to clear the selected issues on your list or board view.

Take actions

Once an issue or set of issues are selected, use Cmd/Ctrl K to open the command bar and select the preferred action or right-click anywhere on the selected issue(s) to open the contextual menu for a list of available actions.

Reorder issues using keyboard shortcuts

To move an issue or issues up or down the list:

  1. In the Display Options, set the Grouping to No grouping
  2. Set the Ordering to Manual
  3. Select the issue(s) you want to move. Then, use:
  • Option/Alt Shift or Option/Alt Shift to move issues to the top or bottom.
  • Option/Alt or Option/Alt to move issues in increments.

Update multiple issues

Select them with shortcuts or the mouse and then update the issue field like you would any issue. Common bulk actions will show up at the bottom.

  • Select all keyboard shortcut: To change issue priority so all issues without a priority were assigned no priority, filter to no priority issues and then used Cmd/Ctrl A then P to update the priority.
  • Use mouse to select multiple issues: To move some issues from Todo to backlog, select by hovering over them and individually marking the checkbox that popped up.
  • Use keyboard to select multiple issues and bulk action toolbar: Holding down Shift while moving the up/down buttons to select multiple issues and choose a bulk action such as Move to backlog.