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Bulk update people
Bulk update people

Edit, assign, archive or delete multiple people at once

Justyna Kawalec avatar
Written by Justyna Kawalec
Updated over a week ago

The bulk actions help you manage your team with just a few clicks. Select one or more people on the People page to display the available actions.

Select multiple team members to view the bulk actions menu for people.

Bulk-edit people

There are eight fields that can be edited in bulk.

  • Role - updates the role for selected team members. If the role has a default hourly rate assigned, it will be displayed next to it. You can decide if you'd like to apply it.

    Bulk-updating the role and optionally applying the role rate.

  • Department - updates the department for selected team members.

    Bulk updating the department.

  • Tags - you can add and/or remove people tags for selected team members.

    Bulk-updating people tags.

  • Type - update the user type for selected team members to employee, contractor, or placeholder.

    Bulk-updating user type.

  • Rate - update the hourly rate or role rate for selected team members.


    📝Note: New rates do not override rates set at the project or phase level.

    Bulk-updating hourly rate and the role rate.

  • Public holidays - updates the public holidays region for selected team members.

    Bulk-updating public holidays.

  • Access - update the access rights for selected team members. This option will only be displayed if all the selected people already have access rights assigned.

Bulk-updating access rights.

📝Note: We do not currently support bulk-assigning access rights. You can learn more about bulk updating access rights here.

  • Manages - update managed departments for selected People Managers. This option will only be displayed if you select multiple People Managers.

    Bulk updating People Managers.

Bulk-assign to project

With Assign to project you can assign multiple team members to a project team. They will then appear on the Team tab on the project menu.

Assign multiple people to a project.

Bulk-archive people

The Archive button removes selected people from the Schedule and frees up their seats on your Float plan. All their historical data is retained. Archived people still appear on the People and Report pages when the Archived filter is applied. You can learn more about archiving team members here.

Bulk-archiving people.

Bulk-activate people

The Activate button brings the archived people to the active state.

Bulk-activating people.


Bulk-delete people

To delete people in bulk, the profiles must be archived first. Deleting team members is permanent, and it removes all of their scheduled and logged time. This data cannot be restored. You can learn more about deleting team members here.

Bulk-deleting people.

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