Select issues

Overview

Selection lets you act on a set of Issues. Team Issues, My Issues, Project tables, the Sub-issues section in Issue detail, and archive tables use row checkboxes. Only actions allowed for the whole selection are available.

Highlight an issue

Press Up or Down from the Issue table page or Issue detail with expanded Sub-issues to focus its first visible Issue, or focus a row with Tab. Then use J/K or the arrow keys to move the highlight through the visible order. Hold Up or Down to keep moving through rows and scroll them into view. Mouse hover clears when the pointer leaves and does not change the keyboard target. The focus highlight is separate from checkbox selection: ordinary arrows never change the selected set. Press Enter or Space to open the highlighted Issue, and X to toggle its checkbox when selection is allowed.

The same row keys work in the other workspace tables: Projects and Initiatives, their archived and deleted lists, Meeting Minutes and archived Meeting Minutes, Workspace and Team Views, and the Teams list in Settings. Press Down from the page or from its view tabs to reach the first row, move with the arrows or J/K, and press Enter to open the row. Where a table has checkboxes, X, Shift with Up or Down, and Ctrl + A (⌘ + A on a Mac) select rows. In Team Triage, Up, Down, J and K move through the intake and open each item. Press Ctrl + / (⌘ + / on a Mac) to see every shortcut.

When you open an Issue from a collection, the detail header offers Back, Previous, and Next for that in-app visit. The context follows the collection's current filter, sort, grouping, and collapsed groups. Previous and Next traverse only currently loaded rows, including the materialized page for paginated collections; they do not fetch unseen pages or later matching Issues. A copied URL, direct visit, or hard refresh opens the canonical Issue without collection controls.

Select issues

• Click the row checkbox.
• Ctrl-click a row on Windows, or ⌘-click on macOS, to toggle that row without clearing the others.

Select multiple issues

Hold Shift and press Up or Down to move focus and select the range from your starting row. Holding an arrow continues the range; reversing direction shrinks it. Previously selected rows are preserved. Releasing Shift starts a new range on the next gesture. Ctrl/⌘ + arrows keep their browser or operating-system behavior.

• Shift-click a row or checkbox to select a visible range.
• Press Ctrl/⌘ + A from the Issue table page or Issue detail with expanded Sub-issues or a focused row to select all eligible expanded rows. No row hover or prior selection is needed. Repeating it keeps them selected. Inputs and open controls keep native text selection.
• The action bar offers Select all with its Ctrl/⌘ + A hint and a Clear selection control with its Esc hint to clear the entire selection.
• Collapsing a group preserves its checked Issues and the selection count. Select all and new range gestures add only expanded rows; previously checked collapsed Issues remain selected. Filter the table first if you want a narrower set.

Clear selection

Clear the checkboxes, or press Escape. If Actions is open, the first Escape closes it; the next clears the selection. Changing tables clears selection, and Issues removed by filtering or permission changes leave the selection permanently. Collapsing a group alone does not clear its selection. Restoring a filtered-out row does not select it again. Collapsing Sub-issues preserves its selection and action bar. Escape or Clear selection also clears collapsed selections. Sub-issues show touch-accessible checkboxes on narrow screens, including before selection.

Take actions

1. Select the Issues.
2. Open Actions.
3. Choose an available command and review any confirmation.

Right-click an unselected row for its Issue menu. Right-click a selected row to open Actions for the current selection. When a highlighted Issue belongs to a Project, Shift + M opens Phase actions for that Issue. Ctrl + Shift + M (⌘ + Shift + M on a Mac) opens Team move for the highlighted Issue. These shortcuts do not replace or change any separately checked Issues. Checkboxes and property controls keep their own keyboard behavior.

Focused active rows also support S (status), P (priority), A (assignee), L (labels), E (estimate), Shift+P (Project), and Shift+D (due date). Commands require editing permission and the relevant Team settings. They target the focused Issue and preserve separately checked rows. C still creates an Issue. See lifecycle shortcuts for Delete, Restore, and Team archive.

Read-only rows have no selection checkbox and are excluded from range and modifier-click selection. If access changes, that row leaves the selection. Every selected Issue must allow the chosen operation; Integrity does not silently apply only part of an incompatible request.

Reorder issues using keyboard shortcuts (coming soon)

Keyboard commands for manually moving selected Issues up or down are not available.

Update multiple issues

Use Actions to change compatible properties such as status, priority, assignee, labels, Project, Phase, due date, or estimate.

• Create related creates connected work or a parent above the selection.
• Mark as connects Issues to an existing parent, relation, blocker, or duplicate target.
• Remove relations previews which links will be removed.
• Archived selections offer Unarchive and Delete. Deleted selections offer Restore and Permanently delete.

Every selected Issue must allow the operation. Review relationship and deletion effects before confirming. See Parent and sub-issues and Delete and archive issues.