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Learning the Rules framework Series

	Title
1.	Introduction to Rules FREE	12m
2.	Data types and data selection FREE	15m
3.	Lists and loops FREE	13m
4.	Overview of actions, conditions and events FREE	8m
5.	Combining conditions FREE	7m
6.	Components FREE	8m
7.	Login redirects FREE	8m
8.	Notify author of comments FREE	11m
9.	Notify on comment reply FREE	11m
10.	Sync article promotions with articles FREE	16m
11.	Automatically create promotions FREE	14m
12.	Importing and exporting rules FREE	11m
13.	Debugging Rules configuration FREE	7m
14.	Introducing Rules Scheduler FREE	11m
15.	Using fields for setting evaluation time FREE	9m
16.	Repeating scheduled events FREE	9m
17.	Introducing Views Bulk Operations FREE	8m
18.	Views Bulk Operations settings FREE	9m
19.	Using Rules components with VBO FREE	5m
20.	Using Rules components with more than one parameter FREE	12m
21.	Using VBO to load a list of objects into Rules FREE	12m
22.	An overview of Flag and Rules FREE	5m
23.	Basics of Rules Link FREE	10m
24.	More Rules Link FREE	9m
25.	Rules Bonus Pack: Views and CTools integration FREE	11m
26.	Rules Bonus Pack: Using Rules for presentation altering FREE	14m

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This screencast presents a way to automatically create the article promotions used in the previous screencast. Topics covered are:

Using the after new content has been created event, which does provide content NID
Working with rule set components.
Creating new entities with Rules.
Setting field values in new entities – even complex fields like images.
Force-saving entities, for example to get node IDs.

Tagged: Johan Falk, NodeOne and Rules

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