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Bulk changes to work items

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Bulk changes to work items

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- [Instructor] Many people who use Azure DevOps don't realize that you can run bulk updates on your work items. So if we just come into the results screen here, let's say that you know that one of your developers is going to be off sick and you want to change the state to blocked for lots of your work items that that person is dealing with. So you could make a query that says just show me everything assigned to such and such a person. And let's say that returns you these three. You could change the type of the story. So instead of it being an epic, you can downgrade it to a feature, for example. You can edit it using any of the fields that Azure DevOps has. So let's add a tag actually and we'll just say, this is blocked because we haven't got a state of blocked here. Now the tags show you that this has all got a blocked tag in and the fact that they're bold is telling you that they are not yet saved. So if we come…

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