# Item Bulk Edit

**Bulk Edit** helps speed up updating your Catalog, whether it's assigning Stages, publishing, modifying tags, adding and updating Metadata, or adding and updating Attributes.

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The Quick View & Edit automatically becomes a Bulk Edit once you select more than one Item:

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Within Bulk Edit, you an update:

* Assigned Asset
* Assigned Stage
* Assigned Composite (for Virtual Photography)
* Published State
* Add tags (existing or create in place)
* Remove existing tags
* Metadata
  * Add new Metadata
  * Modify shared metadata (where the metadata keys match)
* Attributes
  * Add new Local and Global Attributes
  * Modify shared Local and Global Attributes

To confirm the Items that will be updated, use the Selected items dropdown:

![](https://2668731230-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2Fknvt0jlDBXmk91mWaWXB%2Fuploads%2FDav1RZpr0rPPEFuuPvrz%2FItemBulkEdit_3.png?alt=media\&token=a10b1822-811e-44a2-9b8b-6fa986fbba20)