Selection of multiple Sticky Notes

Owned by Stefan Niederhauser
Last updated: May 25, 2023 by Christopher Pola
3 min read

Selecting (multiple) Sticky Notes

By clicking the Select Stickies icon in the bottom right menu, the application goes into selection mode. Keyboard Shortcut: Press Shift and hover over sticky notes.

 

This is visible by the different mouse cursor.

Select Stickies Mouse Cursor
Mouse cursor changes when in Select Stickies Mode. Keyboard Shortcut: Press Shift and hover over sticky notes.

Then, stickies can be selected by simply clicking them or hovering over them when using the keyboard shortcut method (Hold Shift key and hover over Sticky Note). Selected stickies have a black shadow.

Actions toolbar on the Team Board when multiple stickies selected

  • When any of the selected stickies are dragged to another position, all other selected stickies follow it.

  • When pressing the Control^ key while dragging, the other stickies do not follow it.

  • As soon as more than one sticky is selected, a toolbar menu is shown at the bottom of the screen, see screenshot below.

 

From the toolbar, the following actions can be performed on the selected stickies:

  • Align or evenly distributed either horizontally or vertically

  • Preview the alignment actions by hovering the mouse over an action menu icon for a brief moment before clicking the icon

  • Link the selected Sticky Notes to other ART Backlog Board stickies or PI Objectives

  • Every such action can also be undone by clicking the Undo icon after an action is performed

Actions toolbar on the ART Backlog Board when multiple stickies selected

  • When multiple stickies are selected on the ART Backlog Board a toolbar menu is visible at the bottom of the board. With the following options: Mirror, Teams, Link

  • Mirror: ability to mirror the selected Backlog sticky notes to the ART Planning Board

  • Teams: ability to bulk assign the selected ART Backlog Board sticky notes to a Team

  • Link: the ability to link the selected ART Backlog Board sticky notes to other Sticky Notes or PI Objectives

  • Every such action can also be undone by clicking the Undo icon after an action is performed

 

Ending selection

Pressing Escape key clears the selection (i.e. the currently selected Sticky Notes). Pressing Escape again (or clicking the Select Stickies menu item again, or releasing the Shift key) exits the Selection mode.