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Is there a way to mass update a single attribute across contracts?

  • July 7, 2025
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I have several thousand agreements in my CLM.  There is a new Attribute I am being asked to track across them all that was not entered when we migrated them into the system.  I have the new values for all of the agreements in an excel file.  Is there any way to upload a change to enter values to Attributes across many contracts at the same time?  It is prohibitive to go into each contract and add this Attribute one at a time.  It would take far too long.

Best answer by Michael.Rave
Example workflow to achieve a bulk update of attributes based on a CSV file.

 

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Michael.Rave
Docusign Employee
Docusign Employee
July 8, 2025

@Jenna Schorer 

You can bulk update attribute values in DocuSign CLM using a simple workflow. First, generate a report containing the document IDs and download it as a CSV file. Then, add a new column to this CSV with the updated attribute values. The workflow will use the document IDs to locate and update the corresponding documents in DocuSign CLM.

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Michael.Rave
Docusign Employee
Docusign Employee
July 11, 2025
Example workflow to achieve a bulk update of attributes based on a CSV file.

 

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Conversation Starter
July 11, 2025

Michael, thank you so much!  I had been playing around trying to figure out a good Workflow to do this.  This looks like it will perfectly solve the issue I have.

Newcomer
September 16, 2025

Can you let me know what parameters you selected for Decision and timer trigger?

I am new to Docusign so please help me out!

Conversation Starter
September 21, 2025

Hi, I swapped the Decision out for a Rule instead.  It’s set to wait every 500 rows.  And I set the timer to wait for 10 seconds.

Conversation Starter
September 23, 2025

Another question about this one if anyone has an idea.  I have been trying to get this to work for weeks now and nothing gets it past the Find Document step.  The Update Variable step right before it IS correctly putting in the Document ID into the variable, but when I use that variable in the Find Document step, it keeps failing.  Any ideas where I’m going wrong?

 

Docusign Employee
September 23, 2025

Hi ​@Jenna Schorer - If you search for the document Id separately, using just CLM Search, do you return any results that way? I’m wondering if the list of IDs was from another account, maybe UAT? If so, the list of Ids will now be different if you are running the same workflow in production. 

Kelly Gatling | Principal Product Trainer | Docusign University
Conversation Starter
September 23, 2025

Hi Kelly, yes if I search just the Document ID, it pulls it up in the search.  I got the list of files in the csv from a report in Production, so we’re good there.  

Docusign Employee
September 23, 2025

If you can export your workflow and attach it here as a new message, I can try later today to see if I can figure out the root cause. Or if you want to try and message it to me directly, feel free!

Kelly Gatling | Principal Product Trainer | Docusign University
Conversation Starter
September 23, 2025

Hi Kelly, here is the json.  -Jenna