# Editing Multiple Items

The multiple item content views all share the same editing functionality. These views include: All Tags, Comments, Commercial Information Webpages, Equalization, General Encapsulated Objects, Lyrics, Official Artist/Performer Webpage, Private Information, Ratings, Relative Volume, Terms of Use, UFID, UDTI, UDURL and Unhandled items.

Every item displays a status. The status items can be: default (star), present in all files (full filled circle), non present in all files (half filled circle), initial no longer present image (down arrow), editing state no longer present image (pencil).

When more that one file is selected, you have the option of displaying a list of files which reference an item. The option is enabled by the Show File References context menu item. Subsequently the option can be disabled by the Hide File References context menu item. When showing file references is enabled a disclosure triangle will be available on each item to display the list.

Functionality is available via a context menu which may include the following:

Copy...
  Used to copy various portions of the item to the system clipboard.
File Representation
  Only available on the UDTIs and All Tags editing panels. Many UDTIs are normalized so that they have the same display name. This is done so that they can conveniently be accessed from within actions, regardless of the audio format. This item displays the file representations for a UDTI.
Show Containing Edit Panel
  Only available on the All Tags editing panel. When the selected item can be located on other edit panels the names of the edit panels will be displayed in a submenu. If an item is selected, the selected panel will be displayed.
New tag name Item
  Used to create a new item in all selected files.
Add New Item
  Displays a menu of all tag items which can be created on the All Tags editing panel. When a menu item is selected, the appropriate editor will be displayed. An item is created in all selected files.
Add Favourite
  Only available on the All Tags editing panel. The menu displayed via Add New Item can be quite large. The favourites menu is a user configurable menu of tag types. The end of the menu has an item to configure the menu's content. When a menu item is selected, the appropriate editor will be displayed. An item is created in all selected files.
Edit
  When one or more file references are selected, you will edit only those files. When an item (not a file reference) is selected, you will edit the items in all files associated with the item. On the All Tags panel, when an artwork item is selected, edit will display the selected item in the Artwork panel.
Set as Default
  When the selected item has the concept of a default value and it is present in all selected files, you can make the item the default value.
Apply to all Files
  The selected item is applied to all selected files .
Delete
  When one or more file references are selected, the selected item will be deleted in only those files. When an item (not a file reference) is selected, the item is deleted in all associated files. On the All Tags panel, when you delete a simple tag such as Artist, Album, etc. you are setting the field to empty. The item will be removed from the display.
Revert All to ... Initial Values
  This will revert all tags supported by the editing panel to their initial values.
Revert All to ... Editing State Values
  This will revert all tags supported by the editing panel to their editing state values.
Change File Selection
  Changes the main window file selection to the items selected in the panel.
Recreate Item(s)
  Used to recreate individual removed items without reverting all items. This is not available on the All Tags panel as it only supports current values.
View
  Views an item's content in the Log Viewer for binary data items. Artwork items will be displayed in the Artwork Viewer.
Export
  Exports a binary item's content to a file.
Dump
  Exports a binary item's content as a hexadecimal dump to a file.

Double clicking on an item is typically equivalent to the Edit menu item. There are a few exceptions:

- When you double click in a value column and the data starts with https://, http:// or www. an attempt will be made to open the URL.
- When you double click in the value column of an Artwork item, the image is displayed in the Artwork Viewer.
- When you double click on an Artwork item in the description or tag column, the image will be displayed in the Artwork editing panel so that you can modify the image.

Note that you can position to items based on the Description column (if present) by type select.