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2.3 Remove Bulk Labels

Strips specific labels from selected pages without affecting any other labels on those pages.

When to use: Cleaning up a deprecated taxonomy label; undoing labels applied incorrectly in a previous operation; archiving a project and removing its tag from all content.


Step 1 - Select Labels

Type the label name(s) you want to remove in the Old Label(s) field. Press Enter to confirm each one - they appear as removable tags inside the field.

Click Remove to advance to Content Selection.

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Fig 11 - The Remove Bulk Labels selector with "demo" entered and ready.

Step 2 - Content Selection

Works identically to the Add and Replace operations. The header confirms which label is being removed: Removing Label(s): demo

Option

Behaviour

This content with its all child content

Removes the label from the current page and all its descendants.

Choose Content

Displays a page tree - check each page to include.

Click Next when your selection is ready.

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Fig 12 - Content Selection for the Remove operation with "Overview" checked.

Step 3 - Review & Confirm

Column

What it shows

Operation

Remove Bulk Labels

Selected content

Number of pages in scope, including child pages

Old Label(s)

The label(s) being removed

Click Confirm to start the operation.

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Fig 13 - Review & Confirm showing 1 page selected and "demo" as the label to remove.

Step 4 - Processing & Results

As with Replace, a Calculating descendants… message appears while child pages are counted before the progress bar begins.

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Fig 14 - Processing screen for the Remove operation.

The results table for Remove may include a Skipped row in addition to Successful and Error - this appears when a page did not have the label to begin with and was therefore left unchanged.

Metric

Colour

Description

Total Processed

Blue

Total pages evaluated

Successful

Green

Pages from which the label was removed

Skipped

Yellow

Pages that did not have the label - no change made

Error

Red

Pages that could not be processed

Click the chevron on any Skipped or Error row to expand details on which pages were affected.

Click Close to dismiss the dialog.

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Fig 15 - Processing Results: 1 page was processed, 1 success, 0 error.