How To: Add Tags to Many Records

I recently got this question:

“I need to add two tags to everyone in our data base that already has the tag of [Tag-1] or [Tag-2]. Can I do this without having to go into each record?”

Tags are a powerful way to slice-and-dice your data. I use tags almost exclusively over categories… are you making use of tags? And yes, there is a super easy way to do this… here’s what you do (this applies to the Contacts, Companies and Jobs List Panels):

Let’s use Contacts as an example. Go into Manage Columns with this icon:

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Change Rows Per Page to 255 Contacts, then click Save:

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Optional but highly recommended: Do a filtered search to narrow down your List Panel (like below). Check out this post on filtered searches.

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On the left, click the checkboxes of each record you want to add the tags to.  You can select all with the top-left checkbox, and then deselect the records you don’t want one-by-one.

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At the bottom of the List Panel, there are icons… choose the the fourth from the left… the rubber-stamp looking one:

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On the page that comes up, add new tags in the big box, then click save:

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That’s it!  You can see that you can easily remove tags from Contacts, too.