Bulk actions

"Bulk action" means two different things in Monokaido, and it is worth separating them at the outset:

This chapter is about the second one.

1 — Rules2 — Execution history3 — What a rule does4 — Where rules come from5 — How it works

Controls on this screen

1. 1Rules — Saved prescriptions: a filter, plus the action to apply to it.
2. 2Execution history — When each rule ran and how many products it touched. This is where you come to check the impact.
3. 3What a rule does — Applies an action to the products matching a filter — not to a selection you ticked once.
4. 4Where rules come from — Filter the product list and use "Save as rule". The empty screen says so outright.
5. 5How it works — A summary of the procedure, on the screen.

How a bulk-action rule is made

1. Filter the set in Products

   The filter is the definition of who the action applies to. It is worth eyeballing first — the number of matches is in the floating bar.

2. Choose the action

   Through the Bulk actions button.

3. Save as a rule

   Instead of running once, a prescription is stored. From then on the action applies to every product that matches the filter — including the ones that arrive tomorrow.

What can be undone

Individual changes, yes, through Changes to review — each carries its source, so what a given action did can be filtered out. But while the rule is enabled the next run makes the change again; disable the rule first.

Execution history says how many products each run touched. It is the first place to look when "something went wrong across the board".