> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.qrtub.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Adding and Removing Links in a Batch

> Two ways to change which links a Draft batch contains — from inside the batch, or from the Items and Access Links grids — and the one rule both obey.

A Draft batch's contents are not fixed. You can add links to it or take links out, one at a time
or in bulk, right up until the batch leaves Draft. Every change regenerates the batch's stored
CSV so the file always matches the list.

The rule behind both routes below is the same: **links can only be edited on a Draft batch.**

## From inside the batch

Open the batch and choose **Edit included links**. The dialog has two tabs:

**Current** lists every link in the batch. Filter by link URL, item name or Item ID, tick the
links you want gone (or **Select all filtered**), and choose **Remove**.

**Add** searches your team's links by link URL, destination, item name or Item ID. Links already
in the batch are excluded from the results, so everything you see is genuinely addable. The list
shows the first 50 matches with a note like "Showing 50 of 320 available links" — refine the
search to reach the rest, or use **Select all (320)** and QRtub adds every match server-side
without you paging through them.

## From the Items or Access Links grid

Both grids offer **Add to batch...** in the row menu and in the bulk-actions menu. Picking it
opens a batch picker that lists **only Draft batches** — a batch past Draft is not offered at
all, which is the first place most people notice the rule.

If the grid is already filtered to one batch, that batch is hidden from the picker (every row is
already in it) and the menu offers a direct add or remove against it instead.

From the Items grid the selection is Items, and QRtub resolves each Item to its Link. An Item with
no Link is skipped with the warning "Item has no links to add" rather than failing the whole
operation.

Bulk actions work either from the rows you ticked, or — with "select all pages" — from your
current filters, handed to the server as a scope. That avoids sending tens of thousands of IDs
from the browser.

## The Draft-only rule, and how it surfaces

Once a batch reaches Printing, Printed or Deployed, its link list is frozen:

* **Edit included links** disappears from the batch panel.
* The batch stops appearing in the "Add to batch" picker.
* Where a batch is already selected in a grid, the add/remove controls are disabled with the
  tooltip "Batch is printed — links are locked".
* An attempt that reaches the server anyway is refused with "Links can only be edited on a draft
  batch."

To change a Printing or Printed batch, revert it to Draft first. Deployed cannot be reverted at
all — see [Batch Status: Draft to Deployed](/print-batches/batch-status).

## Details worth knowing

* **Adding the same link twice is harmless.** A link already in the batch is skipped, never
  duplicated, and the "added" count reflects only genuinely new links.
* **The CSV is rebuilt from current data** after every add or remove, so a renamed Item shows its
  new name in the regenerated file.
* **Removing a link from a batch does not delete it.** The Link, its Item and its destination are
  untouched; only its membership in this run goes away.
* **Link and item counts are recalculated** after every change, so the batch row stays accurate.

## Related

* [Editing a Batch's Columns](/print-batches/editing-columns)
* [Batch Status: Draft to Deployed](/print-batches/batch-status)
* [The Batch CSV: Downloading and Reprinting](/print-batches/csv-download)
* [Creating a Print Batch](/print-batches/creating-a-batch)