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Views Bulk Operations Settings for Drupal 7

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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.

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Sprout Video

This screencasts presents some of the settings available when configuring a bulk operations view. It covers:

  • Controlling access to your VBO, and why that is important.
  • Showing actions as buttons rather than a select list.
  • The new cool option for selecting all items on all view result pages.
  • Turning check boxes into radio buttons.
  • Showing or hiding the result of the bulk operations.
  • Showing action configuration on the view page.
  • How to skip the confirmation page.
  • How to give your actions customized labels.

Additional resources

Views Bulk Operations (VBO) guide (Drupal.org)