# New Bulk Select Actions Dropdown

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-bulk-select-actions-dropdown/302646
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** new-feature, bulk-actions
**Created:** [April 5, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-bulk-select-actions-dropdown/302646 "2024-04-05T21:49:01Z")
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### Author: ![blake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/blake/32/157322_2.png) [@blake](https://meta.discourse.org/u/blake)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-bulk-select-actions-dropdown/302646/1 "2024-04-05T21:49:01Z")

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The bulk select topics feature is switching from the existing modal to a new dropdown for selecting which action you would like to perform on the selected topics.

 ![CleanShot 2024-04-05 at 15.11.23@2x](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/1/7/517a050b495cda177d8b1c6bdd51a6530645ee7e.png)

One of the motives for switching to this new design is to prevent modals on top of modals that would sometimes occur.

Each action shares a common modal with a cancel and confirm button in the footer.

 ![CleanShot 2024-04-05 at 15.24.01@2x](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/5/2/05210ac879f8b4a17b20c7d0c44468bb8fdbfa26.jpeg)

Plugins, like the discourse-assign plugin, can also add custom actions to the dropdown:

 ![CleanShot 2024-04-05 at 15.46.31@2x](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/e/4/de44cd8ca7a9956580b8072318d08cb5c38c6f50.png)

### Silently Close Topics

One new feature that we have added to the Bulk Close Topics action is the ability to silently close topics:

 ![CleanShot 2024-04-05 at 15.42.07@2x](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/9/f/d9f33dbec86ef08667f78ecafcbeaf6b7adb1270.png)

This will all you to close many topics without bumping the unread state for any users who have already read the topics and happen to be watching/tracking it.

### Common Message when Closing

Along these same lines we also added the ability to add a message when bulk closing topics so that you can include the same mini-post content on all of them.

 ![CleanShot 2024-04-05 at 15.39.27@2x](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/7/e/87e3a6849e24fb8ac3084905a94912cc93e2c90f.png)

And this is how the common message appears in the closed topics:

 ![CleanShot 2024-04-05 at 15.41.02@2x](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/d/5/4d54a0b0ba552f398877a29939807f861105a3c9.png)

### What do you think?

Currently this feature is still in the “Experimental” stages and is gated by the `SiteSetting.experimental_topic_bulk_actions_enabled_groups` setting. We would love your feedback as we continue to improve this feature, so please enable it on your site and let us know what you think!