See below from sma:

Hey Arthur,

I came upon an issue in CiviCRM regarding the Batch Update via Profile function that allows you to update fields for multiple contacts at once. Here are the steps that lead to the issue:

I do a search in CiviCRM and select some or all of the results. Then I go to the drop-down menu and choose "Batch Update via Profile" and click "Go". The issue arises on the next page, where it says "Select Profile". In the old version of CiviCRM, the drop-down menu would have many of the profiles within CiviCRM Profile that we could batch update, but in the new version, there's only New Individual and Test.

I created Test myself playing around to see how I could get profiles to show up in the menu, and what I found is that it only shows up if you're updating individuals and the profile field is also "individual". If the profile field is something else, like "contact", it won't appear in the batch update menu.

I Googled and asked around, and it seems that this is caused by a bug with the Profile "Type" where the code that evaluates which profiles to show on the drop-down is filtering a lot of them out (see links below). According to the developers, the issue is fixed in 3.2.1 but I'm wondering if there's a quick, convenient way to patch it for our version right now? Anyway, here are the links to a forum thread and a bug report regarding the issue:

http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php?topic=14973.0
http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-6611

Thanks for looking into it!

Steven

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