Structure allows you to select multiple items and do most operations with all selected issues at once. Usually, you navigate structures and focus on a single item for further actions. The focused item is highlighted with the blue background, and the actions (like moving) apply to the highlighted item only.
Entering Multi-Select Mode
You can select multiple items and switch Structure widget into multi-select mode in one of the following ways:
- Press Space to add the currently-focused item, and then move to the next issue
- Click the gray dot in the beginning of an item row to toggle its selection
- Hold Shift and use the Up and Down arrows to select a range of issues
- Hold Shift and use the Right/Left arrows to select/deselect the focused issue with all its sub-issues
- Hit Ctrl+A (Command+A on Mac) to select all issues
Selected items are marked with a filled circle, and an additional panel appears at the top of the grid showing the number of selected items and several action buttons.
The selection panel offers the following features:
- Move focus from one selected item to another by clicking the up and down arrows
- Bulk Edit the selected issues using the Bulk Edit button
- Show only selected items and their parents by clicking the Filter button
- Remove selection by clicking the close button in the right corner of the panel
Special Selection Markers
If you collapse a list of sub-items, the selection marker of the parent item will show if it contains any selected sub-issues.
For example, if you collapse sub-issues of OFW-1, DTD-1, and LHMGR-2 in the example above, you will see these selection markers (the large and small circles to the left of each row):
Some of the issues are selected; some of the selected issues are collapsed under their parent issues.
The meaning of each marker is as follows:
| DTD-1 | DTD-1 itself is not selected, but some of its sub-items are selected |
| not on the example | the item itself is not selected, but all of its sub-items are selected |
| LHMGR-2 | LHMGR-2 is selected, and some of its sub-items are selected |
| OFW-1 | OFW-1 is selected, and all its sub-items are also selected |
Exiting Multi-Select Mode
Hit the Escape key to clear multiple selection and exit multi-select mode (or press the close button in the selection panel). You can also hit Ctrl+A (Command+A) twice – the first key stroke will select all items, the second one will de-select all items.