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Using Rules Components with VBO for Drupal 7

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This screencast shows how you can use Rules components in VBO, allowing much more complex and flexible actions than comes out of the box with VBO. The episode covers:

  • How to create a simple Rules component.
  • How component parameters are used by VBO – in particular that it is useful to have a single node as parameter if you want to use a component with a node view.
  • Some words about what the provided variable option for Rules components means.
  • An example showing how to use VBO to close (and hide) comments using VBO + Rules in combination.
  • Some comments about creating more complex Rules components.

Additional resources

List operations with Views (Drupal.org)