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This tutorial covers a topic in Drupal 7 which may or may not be the version you're using. We're keeping this tutorial online as a courtesy to users of Drupal 7, but we consider it archived.
Alternate resources
Rules guide (Drupal.org)
Sprout Video
This screencast shows how to go about debugging Rules configuration. It covers:
- Enabling the debug information in Rules, showing rules evaluation.
- How to drill down into Rules’ debug messages.
- That most (or all) times, it is your configuration and not the Rules engine that has the bug.
- That the most common bug is condition that evaluates in an unexpected way.
- How to see how long time rules execution takes – and why/when this may be important.
- How to use the debugging action in Rules, to inspect the data in Rules.
Additional resources
Rules guide (Drupal.org)