Change many sessions at once

Open bulk changes

Open Bulk changes from the Programme start page (route /programme/bulk). You can also select sessions in the session list and choose Bulk change…; those sessions are then already selected.

1. Find items

Filter by day, room, speaker, topic, level, language, session type and publication or planning status (Published, Draft, Placed, Unplaced). Choose whether to include blocks; blocks respond only to the day, room and published/draft filters.

2. Choose items

Choose individual rows, the current page, the visible range or all matches. Items, sessions and rooms are shown by name, not by internal ID. When you continue, Omnia fixes the selection together with the version of each item. If someone changes an item afterwards, the apply step notices it.

3. Set the change

Choose what to change for the selection:

• Classification: set or clear the language or level; add, remove or replace topics. The session type cannot be changed in bulk.
• Intended day.
• Shift by minutes: move time slots and included blocks earlier or later.
• Room move: a new room and layout for the selected time slots.

4. Preview, then apply

Choose Preview changes. Omnia shows each item with its before and after values and any findings. The preview is stable: it saves nothing and keeps showing the fixed selection.

Choose Apply changes when the preview is right. The operation is all or nothing. It is refused as a whole when it would cause a room or speaker conflict, when an item changed since you chose it, or when a time shift or room move hits an unplaced item. Capacity findings are warnings only. Retrying the same request never applies it twice.

What the result means

• All changes go to the private draft; Omnia records the operation and who applied it.
• Time and room changes also prepare revisions ready to publish.
• Topic, level and language changes prepare content only for sessions whose content is ready. Others get a warning that their content was not prepared; complete them on the session page.
• Nothing becomes public until you review and publish it in the publication workbench.

Restore a bulk change

After applying, follow the link to the recorded operation and choose Restore this operation. Restoring changes the private draft back and is recorded as a new operation, which you can restore in turn.

Restoring is refused if any of the items changed since the operation; Omnia does not overwrite newer work. Restoring never changes the published programme: if you already published the bulk change, publish the restored draft again.

Boundary: there is no list of past operations yet. You reach an operation through the link shown after applying it or after a restore. Keep that link if you may need it.