Changing products 'this item has weight' using 'Update Attributes' is not possible

[hostep]

Preconditions

1. Magento CE 2.1.0
2. Have some virtual products in your catalogue

Steps to reproduce

1. Select a couple of virtual products in the product grid in the backend
2. Choose 'Update Attributes' in the 'Actions' dropdown
3. Search for the weight field, you'll find it
4. Search for the 'This item has weight' or 'This item has no weight' dropdown, you won't find it

Expected result

1. Expected to find the dropdown with the choices 'This item has weight' or 'This item has no weight'

Actual result

1. No dropdown with choice 'This item has weight' or 'This item has no weight' found

I wanted to change a couple of 100 products which were Virtual Products because the weight setting was set to 'This item has no weight' to Simple Products using Update Attributes.
But this currently doesn't work, I have to open all those products manually one by one to change them to a Simple Product which is no fun :(

[sevos1984]

This is a known issue MAGETWO-45066, thanks for reporting

[flipflap]

When can we expect this option? It is very important to change config simple products to hast weight as guest checkout fails if they don't have.

[flipflap]

Any news about this issue?

[Jimgitsit]

Any workaround such as a DB query?

[flipflap]

I don't know exactly how to do it with a DB query. I think it should be a part of "update attributes". Other user may also need it.

[jeanpham]

Any update on this issue? It's just crazy this bug is still in there

[tek-moe]

This is a critical issue since it can easily compound with configurable products. My client has to go through 50+ records at a time just to change from a virtual product to simple product by changing the weight attribute flag to "this item has weight". You can even give that virtual product a weight via mass attribute change and the flag will still display as this item has no weight with an integer assigned to wieght which clearly indicates that there is weight.

[flipflap]

Seems not yet fixed in Magento 2.1.4 :-(
http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.1/release-notes/ReleaseNotes2.1.4CE.html

[illyalvov]

What about 2.1.5?

[flipflap]

Unfortunately, I think not:

This release updates the copyright date in every file. It does not contain any functional changes or security improvements.