The Batch Update page enables you to enter metadata against a set of images quickly, without having to return to a search results page after each update. You will want to use Batch Update if you need to add metadata to a particular group of assets, but the information you are adding is not the same for all assets.

To start a new batch update, click 'Start new batch update'.

Then enter the search criteria that will be used to select the assets that will form the batch to be updated (for example, select a category to update all assets in a particular category, or select Metadata Status ‘Incomplete' to update all assets that are still flagged as ‘Incomplete'). When you click 'Search' Asset Bank will find all the assets that match your criteria and take the first 100 to create your batch.

You will then see the details of the first asset in the batch. Change the metadata of the asset, and then click 'Save & Continue' to save the changes. If you do not want to change the asset then click 'Skip' to skip the asset and take it out of your batch.

When you click 'Save' or 'Skip' you will be presented with the next asset, until you reach the end of your batch. The heading will keep a running total of how many you have remaining in your batch:

To pause the batch update you can click 'Cancel', or simply navigate to another page of the Asset Bank. Whenever you have a batch update in progress you will see an alert panel below the navigation menu, which contains a link back to the batch update.

To resume a batch update, click on this link or click on 'Batch update' in the left-hand navigation and then click 'Return to your current batch update' on the Batch Update page.

When a batch update is in progress, all assets that are in your batch (that you haven't either saved or skipped) will be unavailable to another user if they start a new batch update: this is to prevent users updating the same image. These images will become available again when you either finish the batch or log out of Asset Bank.

You can only have one batch update in progress at a time for a particular user.