Bulk add recipes to organizers

[matthewkdies]

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I have been poor with assigning tags, categories, and tools to recipes as recipes amassed. In order to properly enable meal planner rules in my household, I need these organizers applied to all recipes. With my number of recipes, it's unrealistic to use only the existing UI to apply organizers to the recipes.

Please note: If there's an existing workflow and for this and I didn't find it in the documentation nor existing issues or tasks, please let me know!

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Rather than using the below UI per-recipe in order to add organizers to a single recipe, I think navigating to an organizer should allow you to select recipes and add them. This might include an "Add Recipes" button which allows you to search and select recipes.

Alternatively, a selection on the recipe's page with the ability to add to an organizer would be powerful as well.

Finally, an API-only solution might be easiest. I tried manually edit the database.json file that's provided when downloading a backup with a quick script (I know, not my best decision 😄) but it failed and I had to restore from a backup.

Please consider and list out some caveats or tradeoffs made in your design decision

Of the three options I provided above, I think the per-organizer solution is the most user-friendly. First off, It doesn't require adding selection and bulk editing to the recipes page. While it does introduce a bulk edit (no matter what), restricting the operation to only one type of edit (e.g., adding a single category, adding a single tag) to the selected recipes.

While the user experience might not be ultimately the most friendly, a bulk operation like this should be one that happens once (or rarely), as per-recipe operations can (and should!) still occur in the recipe editing.

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[matthewkdies]

I'd like to add an addendum to the above that I'm very tentatively open to trying a PR on this issue. Major emphasis on "trying"! 😆 I'm entirely unfamiliar with the codebase and don't have much relevant web-dev experience, so I might need some hand-holding from admins if this is desired.

[michael-genson]

This can be done from the data management page:

https://demo.mealie.io/group/data/recipes

[matthewkdies]

Thank you for the tip! Happy holidays 🎄

[michael-genson]

Happy holidays!!