bulk changes to entry security page

[wychwood]

Title:
bulk changes to entry security page

Area:
entries

Summary:
a) There doesn't seem to be an easily visible link to http://www.dreamwidth.org/editprivacy.bml; b) it might be useful to allow mass privacy changing by tag or similar feature

Description:
a) As stated, http://www.dreamwidth.org/editprivacy.bml is not an easy page to locate. On LJ, it is linked in the header of the Edit Entries page http://www.livejournal.com/editjournal.bml but not on the equivalent here: http://www.dreamwidth.org/editjournal. It would probably also be useful to list it on the Site Map.

b) Currently it is only possible to mass change security by date of posting; I would find it very useful to be able to do so by tag as well. I periodically set all my older posts to friends/access-only, but I also have a set of posts marked "public" which I don't want locked, and therefore have to go back and manually change the security on. I'm sure there are other reasons why the feature would be useful to people, as well. I can't think of any obvious drawbacks, unless it is super-complicated coding or something.

Poll #1636 bulk changes to entry security page

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 27

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Should be implemented as-is.
23 (85.2%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
4 (14.8%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[yvi]

As a note to the lovely person who transfers this to Bugzilla: Might be a good idea to make it two separate bugs? First one is easy tom implement, second.... not so much, I suppose.

[triadruid]

These both seem like extremely useful changes.

[morgandawn]

I was just talking about the need for this in my journal today. the other option would be to work on getting LJ Sec to work on DW since that has the search/change security by tag (or keyword) function.