Note: This screencast can be downloaded from archive.org.
Hey! There's a whole new screencast series about Rules! It covers Rules + VBO but also a lot of other stuff.
Views Bulk Operations is a clever and useful machine to perform actions on stuff that Views can list. Rule sets are clever ways of creating new actions, and make them available to Views Bulk Operations (and other parts of Drupal). Rules is a clever way of automising follow-up actions on your site.
The point of combining Rules and VBO is that it allow you to use Views to fetch related objects on your site, and perform actions on them. Like what?
- When a user is promoted to certain role, publish all her nodes.
- When a node is unpublished, also unpublish all image nodes refering to it.
- When a new comment is posted, send an e-mail to all users who have marked the node with a 'notify me' flag.
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