Bulk Editing Resources in Evolution CMS with Fast Content CSV

Evolution CMS has long had a surprisingly useful answer to one recurring editorial problem: changing many resources at once without touching them one by one in the tree.

In older projects this was often handled with Fast Content CSV. Once configured, the module lets you work with groups of child documents as a table. That means you can export, import, and update common fields in one place instead of opening each resource separately.

What the module helps with

• bulk editing child resources in a section
• updating standard document fields
• editing TV values alongside regular fields
• exporting and re-importing a structured dataset

How the original setup worked

1. Configure the editable columns inside the fast_content_csv module.
2. Install the matching plugin so the resource overview gets section-level buttons.
3. Use those buttons to import, export, or batch-edit the current branch.

The main limitation in the original note was rich text editing. For plain fields, TV values, status flags, ordering, and similar metadata, the module was already a strong productivity tool.

When this approach is still useful

This pattern is valuable when a section behaves more like structured data than free-form editorial content. Catalog branches, landing page collections, directory entries, and announcement lists are typical examples.

For modern Evolution CMS builds you may solve the same workflow differently, but the idea is still important: treat repetitive resource maintenance as a data-editing problem, not as a page-by-page clicking problem.