On 6/9/2010 3:36 PM, Joe Pletcher wrote:

I believe you need to call batch_process('node/to/redirect/to/when/finished');

Joe

Doing that, and, in fact, the redirect occurs, but the meat of the operations function doesn't seem to be happening, and again, the dblog report doesn't contain the watchdog statements from the beginning of the operations function and finished function. I'm assuming that what I've read regarding watchdog working in those places (as opposed to dpm, print_r, etc.) is correct ... unfortunately there's not a 'send up a flare' command :-)

On 6/9/2010 4:17 PM, Randy Fay wrote:

The batch_example.module in Examples project <http://drupal.org/project/examples> may be helpful.

-Randy Thanks Randy, that project will be helpful in general. Unfortunately, the only difference I found was that in the example, batch_set is wrapped around the call to the function hooking batch, and in mine, the batch_set occurs in the hooking function. I changed it to be the same as the example (which has a comment in the block that sets up the batch example like mine that reads 'this doesn't seem to work') and same result...the batch status messages appear, but no processing seems to happen.

Jeff

You can place the function in another file, but you need to use the 'file' parameter on your batch array. And there in lies a problem I see:

$batch = array( 'operations' => array( array('mymodule_batch_task', array($var1, $var2)), ), 'finished' => 'mymodule_batch_finished', 'title' => t('batch process'), 'init_message' => t('starting.'), 'progress_message' => t('Processed @current out of @total.'), 'error_message' => t('encountered an error.'), 'file' => 'mymodule.admin.inc', ); batch_set($batch);

It should be 'file' => drupal_get_path('module','mymodule').'/mymodule.admin.inc' File needs the path on batches, unlike when you use it on a menu or theme item. Jamie Holly http://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net On 6/9/2010 6:29 PM, Ken Rickard wrote:

Undocumented, AFAIK, but your processing function has to be in the main module file.

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Jeff Greenberg<jeff@ayendesigns.com> wrote:

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On 6/9/2010 4:17 PM, Randy Fay wrote:

The batch_example.module in Examples project may be helpful.

-Randy

Thanks Randy, that project will be helpful in general. Unfortunately, the only difference I found was that in the example, batch_set is wrapped around the call to the function hooking batch, and in mine, the batch_set occurs in the hooking function. I changed it to be the same as the example (which has a comment in the block that sets up the batch example like mine that reads 'this doesn't seem to work') and same result...the batch status messages appear, but no processing seems to happen.

Jeff