Bulk editing of metadata: error when "update" option of a required field is unchecked
I'm using Mayan EDMS version 3.5.4. When bulk-editing metadata there is a checkbox "update" for each metadata type. If this is unchecked for an optional metadata type, the value of this type is left unchanged for each document, as expected. If the checkbox is unchecked for a required metadata type, there is an error:
"Metadataname" is required for this document type.
Instead I would expect the the bulk editing to succeed, and the required metadata to remain unchanged for each document as in the optional case.
In my case I have a required metadata type "date" and an optional metadata type "company". I would like to bulk-edit the company value for a batch of documents without changing their individual date, which is not possible because deactivating the "update" option of the date metadata field triggers the error.