Answers.Body: <p>This problem sounded vaguely familiar, and I just found out why.</p>
  
  <p>This is logged on the (old) CiviCRM issue tracker as <a href="https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-17451" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CRM-17451</a>.  The answer was that someone would have to write this functionality or <a href="https://civicrm.org/work-with-the-core-team" rel="nofollow noreferrer">work with the core team</a> to do so.  However, I also see that I found a workaround back in 2016.  From the page:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>In non-technical terms: Profiles secretly have a contact type they're
    associated with. You can see this if you try to add an
    organization-specific field to a profile, then an individual-specific
    field. You'll get the error "Cannot add or update profile field type
    Individual with combination of Household or Organization". That's
    because Civi has decided this is a profile associated with
    Organizations. However, when you don't have any contact type-specific
    fields on a profile, your profile defaults to a contact type of
    "Individual" for many purposes. So individual contact subtypes are
    loaded.</p>
    
    <p>The workaround: Add an organization-specific field (like "Organization
    Name") to your profile, and this problem goes away.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
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Body: <p>I've been trying to use the 'Update Multiple Contacts' feature from within a Group using a profile. The profile field is 'Organization Subtype' </p>
  
  <p>However, when I get the list of contacts to update, and click in the field, no results with the error 'none found' shows up, even though on my database there are a few different subtypes. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?</p>
  
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Title: How do I bulk update organization subtypes using a profile?
ThreadText: # How do I bulk update organization subtypes using a profile?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-05-31)
  
  I've been trying to use the 'Update Multiple Contacts' feature from within a Group using a profile. The profile field is 'Organization Subtype'
  
  However, when I get the list of contacts to update, and click in the field, no results with the error 'none found' shows up, even though on my database there are a few different subtypes. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2019-05-31. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  This problem sounded vaguely familiar, and I just found out why.
  
  This is logged on the (old) CiviCRM issue tracker as [CRM-17451](https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-17451). The answer was that someone would have to write this functionality or [work with the core team](https://civicrm.org/work-with-the-core-team) to do so. However, I also see that I found a workaround back in 2016. From the page:
  
  > In non-technical terms: Profiles secretly have a contact type they're
  > associated with. You can see this if you try to add an
  > organization-specific field to a profile, then an individual-specific
  > field. You'll get the error "Cannot add or update profile field type
  > Individual with combination of Household or Organization". That's
  > because Civi has decided this is a profile associated with
  > Organizations. However, when you don't have any contact type-specific
  > fields on a profile, your profile defaults to a contact type of
  > "Individual" for many purposes. So individual contact subtypes are
  > loaded.
  >
  > The workaround: Add an organization-specific field (like "Organization
  > Name") to your profile, and this problem goes away.
  
  
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