Can I edit in bulk Object Instances via Action?

[VincentF]

My users need to edit one field across multiple objects instances, with as less click as possible as they need to do that often. I would like to have one action that edits N objects instances and change the value of one (or multiple) properties for all those objects in one go.

How can I achieve that ?

[VincentF]

Assuming you have an action that takes 2 parameters:

• One object reference (the object to edit)
• One parameter (the value to overwrite the properties with)

You can bulk edit objects by

• toggling on the “allow multiple values” on the Object Reference.
  
  
• OR selecting “Object Set” as a type for the parameter
  

To clarify the difference between those “Type” of parameters :

• An Object reference is one object instance
• An Object reference with “allow multiple values” is an array of Object References
• an Object Set is a single reference to a “given set of object”. As a general comment, Object Sets are more efficient at high scales.

At time of writing, you can edit 10k objects instances at maximum in one submission, documented here.

Note bis: if other variables (e.g. the default value of the parameter to overwrite) were dependent on this object reference, you might need to edit them accordingly.