# How to select a lot of topics fast?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-select-a-lot-of-topics-fast/25790
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2월 27, 2015, 8:10오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-select-a-lot-of-topics-fast/25790 "2015-02-27T20:10:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@ccdw](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ccdw)
#### Post date: [1월 23, 2016, 11:27오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-select-a-lot-of-topics-fast/25790/21 "2016-01-23T23:27:20Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> You need to stop using jQuery ready instead you should use Ember router.
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> @eviltrout this keeps popping up, can we introduce Discourse.PageReady(function(){}) as a drop-in replacement for jQuery ready ?
Can somebody please tell me which Discourse client side event I should be using to tell when the page has finished updating?
I seem to remember there is also an event that fires when the page changes? That would be helpful too.
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@Bill\_S](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bill_S)
#### Post date: [3월 8, 2016, 5:18오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-select-a-lot-of-topics-fast/25790/22 "2016-03-08T17:18:04Z")
Is there going to be any alternative for having fast-multi-selection of topics from Discourse. Because the jQuery hack at the top is no longer working for me. Someone brought up doing a “search all” for the forum. How does that work?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [3월 8, 2016, 10:55오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-select-a-lot-of-topics-fast/25790/23 "2016-03-08T22:55:28Z")
Sure maybe @techapj can come up with a hack that works on the current version?
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### Author:  [@Bill\_S](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bill_S)
#### Post date: [3월 8, 2016, 11:29오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-select-a-lot-of-topics-fast/25790/24 "2016-03-08T23:29:20Z")
Thanks @codinghorror for responding.
This is the thing, I have boards that I’m going to eventually need to remove that have over 6-7,000 topics (that translates to over 30,000 posts in some). Removing topics at the rate of 50 at a time - cause I finally figured out how to search all topics for a forum - isn’t going to cut it for those of us at an enterprise level. Just cleaning up staging has taken me most of the day to do the simplest things of re-ording and dumping old boards that I don’t need there.
Should I post, as an idea, creating a method to remove all posts at once from a forum, in order to delete that category, so we can see how many would like that? Or, a means of deleting a category, posts and all, all at once?
Unfortunately, as you gain more enterprise users of Discourse, you are going to run into this as an issue over and over again. I can guarantee it. 🕶
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [3월 8, 2016, 11:37오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-select-a-lot-of-topics-fast/25790/25 "2016-03-08T23:37:10Z")
Regardless, it’s going to be mega-slow as doing this triggers probably a hundred database touching code paths. So if you are “recategorizing” 30k topics an entirely different (probably pure sql, bypassing active record) will be necessary.
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### Author:  [@Bill\_S](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bill_S)
#### Post date: [3월 9, 2016, 12:06오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-select-a-lot-of-topics-fast/25790/26 "2016-03-09T00:06:10Z")
Would it be more than the 30 or 40 minutes it will take to manually delete 6,000 topics? 😅
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [3월 9, 2016, 1:23오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-select-a-lot-of-topics-fast/25790/27 "2016-03-09T01:23:08Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> probably pure sql
> [@Bill\_S](#):
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> more enterprise users of Discourse
When using on Enterprise you gotta get your hands dirty sometimes.
I have a need to sync groups with employee groups, with more than 10k users a day. We just drop to database and update users groups accordingly.
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### Author:  [@Bill\_S](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bill_S)
#### Post date: [3월 9, 2016, 6:25오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-select-a-lot-of-topics-fast/25790/28 "2016-03-09T18:25:10Z")
😣 I guess I’ll get there…
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### Author:  [@ezworldwide](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ezworldwide)
#### Post date: [3월 16, 2016, 8:50오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-select-a-lot-of-topics-fast/25790/29 "2016-03-16T20:50:22Z")
I was finally able to migrate one of my Xenforo forums into Discourse. The migration dumped everything in Uncategorized as there were no categories established on a fresh install of Discourse. I’m glad I was able to get the script to work, but now I have all posts from 2011 to present in Uncategorized. My intent was to select all and place into the “Archive” category. Perhaps I should have read more about the need to manually click each topic to execute bulk actions. It seems a bit weird to not have a “select all” feature to mass move topics.
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### Author:  [@charleswalter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charleswalter)
#### Post date: [6월 11, 2016, 6:06오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-select-a-lot-of-topics-fast/25790/30 "2016-06-11T18:06:31Z")
I recently went through the process of moving topics from inactive categories to other locations. I used a tool called Keyboard Maestro to simulate pressing space/tab 1000 times to effectively select all topics in a category. A bit of a hack, but got the job done.
Note this solution might work for a few hundred topics. Not sure about thousands.
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### Author:  [@ossia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ossia)
#### Post date: [11월 11, 2016, 7:14오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-select-a-lot-of-topics-fast/25790/31 "2016-11-11T07:14:44Z")
This code was not working for me:
```plaintext
$('input[type="checkbox"]').attr('checked', 'checked')
```
It was checking the boxes, but the wrench button wouldn’t pop up (I don’t think Discourse was registering them as having been selected).
So instead, I simulated a click with:
```plaintext
$('input[type="checkbox"]').each(function() { this.click()})
```
and this worked as though I’d manually clicked the checkboxes myself. This seems to be the simplest way to do this for one-time migrations. I hope this proves helpful 🙂
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [11월 11, 2016, 8:53오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-select-a-lot-of-topics-fast/25790/32 "2016-11-11T08:53:13Z")
This is still on @techapj’s list, at least for selecting all topics currently visible.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [11월 18, 2016, 5:06오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-select-a-lot-of-topics-fast/25790/33 "2016-11-18T17:06:10Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
>
> selecting all topics currently visible.
This feature is now available via:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/9c7b891afdb687e1ceb110ba07e53b805f04bb5d](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/9c7b891afdb687e1ceb110ba07e53b805f04bb5d)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [11월 18, 2016, 9:40오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-select-a-lot-of-topics-fast/25790/34 "2016-11-18T21:40:24Z")
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