[development] Views and Rules

[Matt Chapman]

Cool idea. There's definitely some sort of relationship to be made to 
Views Bulk Operations module, though I'm not sure off hand exactly what 
that would look like.

-Matt


Steven Jones wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Most of us know that the project_issue module automatically closes
> fixed issues after two weeks of inactivity, this is done with a fairly
> simple SQL query run on cron.
>
> The casetracker modules that are bundled with open atrium lack such a
> feature, and I'm trying to add one. Now I know that I could add a
> simple SQL query on cron, and add the feature, but I think closing
> fixed cases after two weeks is a specific example of a more general
> feature. That is: doing some actions to a bunch of stuff.
>
> I think the 'some actions' can be provided by actions, or even rule
> sets from the rules module, but it seems that the only way to invoke
> actions at the moment is from an event driven perspective, and
> although there is a 'cron' event in rules, it seems you can't then
> iterate over nodes matching certain conditions. So I'd still need to
> code a way to build the 'bunch of stuff'.
>
> One of my first thoughts was: 'can I use views for this?' My idea is
> to add a display plugin that 'renders' a view 'into actions', the
> providing module can execute the view on cron.
>
> Is there something similar out there that already does this? Does it
> sound like even a vaguely sensible idea?
>
> Regards
> Steven Jones
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