As the name states, "Initiate mass-publishing" can be used to mass synchronize traveller or company profiles. There are further options i.e. to synchronize profiles i.e either to all or to a specific interface, only all erroneous profiles (see publishing errors), all company profiles, all traveller profiles or even all travellers of a specific company. Publishing all travellers and/or companies could have an enormous impact to your profiles.
N.BNote: There is no history recorded for profiles synchronized via mass-publishing.
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