RefractTrack Bulk Task Creation and Saved Lists
Bulk Task Creation and Saved Lists
Bulk create
bulk_task_form.php, linked from the nav as "Bulk Create", generates many similar tasks in one pass — a mail-merge style workflow:
- Paste a list of items, one per line (e.g. a project's biomes, enemy types, item names).
- Write a title/description template using a placeholder —
{item}by default, though the tag name is editable — which gets swapped out per line. - Set Type, Priority, due date, and Groups once; these are applied to every task in the batch.
- A live preview shows the resulting titles before you submit.
If the task type is Bug, the bug-specific fields (Expected behavior, Actual behavior, Steps to reproduce — see Tasks) are also available as templates using the same {tag} substitution.
Access is gated by tasks:bulkcreate, which also implies lists:view — bulk create needs to read saved lists (see below) even though it doesn't manage them.
Saved lists
If you find yourself typing the same item list repeatedly, name it and click "Save list" right on the Bulk Create page to reuse it later from the "Load a saved list" dropdown. Saved lists are managed on their own page (bulk_lists.php / bulk_list_form.php, linked from both Bulk Create and Manage → Saved Lists).
Saved lists are per-project, exactly like Stages and Groups — every project's saved lists are independent of every other project's.
Permissions: lists:view, lists:create, lists:edit.