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This is covered by https://www.drupal.org/project/field_defaults →
If someone wanted to look at moving that into core, it should be a new ideas issue.
This might already be a dupe, but I didn't find anything...
People go to, for example, admin/structure/types and change the default publishing options for Article, after they've already created a few articles. According to several support requests I've seen and classes I've taught, people generally seem to expect that these settings should then take effect automatically for all previous content, when in reality this only is a "from here onward" mechanism. Confusing.
Certain modules, such as Pathauto, have a custom workaround for this, where you can specify either to save, or to update all previous entries. Others, such as Ubercart, have feature requests for this pending: #298395: Let admin push class attribute/option changes out to existing nodes →
It'd be nice if core offered such a generic mechanism that other modules such as these could hook into.
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This is covered by https://www.drupal.org/project/field_defaults →
If someone wanted to look at moving that into core, it should be a new ideas issue.