# Conditional Batch Updates

**URL:** <https://forums.knack.com/t/conditional-batch-updates/5883>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [January 6, 2016, 11:11am UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/conditional-batch-updates/5883 "2016-01-06T11:11:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![HendrePage74887](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/977dab/32.png) [@HendrePage74887](https://forums.knack.com/u/HendrePage74887)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 11:11am UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/conditional-batch-updates/5883/1 "2016-01-06T11:11:00Z")

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The batch update feature for the backend is great but I really need a conditional update feature to only update the records if a certain value is true.

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**Author:** ![HendrePage74887](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/977dab/32.png) [@HendrePage74887](https://forums.knack.com/u/HendrePage74887)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 11:14am UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/conditional-batch-updates/5883/2 "2016-01-06T11:14:11Z")

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Ok, I see now I can update records "conditionally" by filtering the records before doing the update. Still it would be nice adding the conditions directly on the batch update dialog.