# Bulk editing with Gridline - Stockline 1.x documentation

> Set stock messages, icons and colours for many products and variations at once in Gridline's bulk editor.

> [!NOTE]
> This is part of **Stockline Pro**.

Gridline is Extendiment's bulk product editor: your catalogue in one spreadsheet-style grid under **Products → Bulk Editor**. With Stockline Pro and Gridline both active, every per-product stock setting is a column there, so you can set the same message on a whole category, or check every product's messages at a glance.

## Turn the columns on

The columns are hidden at first, so the grid isn't crowded. Open **Screen Options** at the top right of the Bulk Editor and tick the ones you need; they're in the list with Gridline's own columns. For each of the four states there are three:

- **Out of stock message**, **Out of stock icon**, **Out of stock colour**
- the same for **In stock**, **Low stock** and **On backorder**

Your choice of columns is remembered for you. If Stockline Pro's columns show up switched on, untick the ones you don't need. Since Gridline 1.0.1, columns that arrive with a plugin you activate later start hidden even if you had already saved your Screen Options.

## Editing

The columns hold exactly what the product's Inventory tab and preview dialog hold, and an empty cell means the same thing: as the store has it (for a variation, as its product has it).

- **Message**: type the text. Bold text, links and placeholders such as `{qty}` work as on the product screen.
- **Icon**: a list of the icons, plus **As the store has it** to go back to inheriting, and **No icon**.
- **Colour**: a hex code such as `#cf222e`, `none` for the theme's colour, or empty to inherit.

A colour that isn't a valid hex code, or an unknown icon, isn't saved: the cell keeps the change with the reason, and the rest of your changes save as usual.

With Gridline Pro, tick **Show variations** and each variation gets its own row under its product, so a variation's message is set the same way. Gridline on its own lists products only.

## Setting many at once

Bulk changes come with Gridline Pro. Tick the products (and variations) to change, click **Bulk edit** and pick a stock message field from the **Stock messages** group, for example to give every product in the "Furniture" category the backorder message "Made to order, ships in 6–8 weeks". The new values show as unsaved changes first; check them, then save. If it wasn't what you wanted, Gridline Pro's History can undo the save. Without Gridline Pro, edit the cells one by one.

> [!TIP]
> To clear a seasonal message from many products, bulk-set the message column to empty. They go back to the store-wide message.

## Good to know

- Grouped and external products don't show a stock line, so the columns don't apply to them.
- The columns appear only while both Gridline and Stockline Pro are active. Without Stockline Pro, Gridline has no stock message columns.

Source: https://www.extendiment.com/plugins/stockline/docs/1.x/bulk-editing-with-gridline