We currently offer only a very limited set of batch actions. As far as I know they are:

• delete items
• move items

Commonly requested batch actions are:

• publish/unpublish items
• duplicate items (and copy items, once we provide it)
• renaming items (take name, add suffix to it)
• export items
• download items

An additional, powerful batch action would allow us to bulk change ("edit") items. However, such a function requires more UI work: bulk changing of items is really well done in web apps such as JIRA, but those type of mass changing of items require solid UI research and powerful backend functions. Very desirable, but probably not part of this issue.