Hidden field is not listed in Rules' data selector

Rules are truly great, but it's often pretty hard to make them do exactly what's on one's mind.

I will myself in a week or so be making rules which involve Field Hidden fields - so if that doesn't work out as expected, I will certainly look into this issue.
And I would be pretty surprised, because from an entity point of view a field is pretty much a field, no matter it's type.

Please post a comment if you find more specific clues that indicate that there is an issue
- or if you realise that it was quite a different matter ;-)

@MI
You're right - a Field Hidden field doesn't appear in Rules' list of 'Data selectors'.
I will try to fix it.
If this module is allowed to use the same types as the 'native' field modules, it may work out.

@MI
Thanks a bl.... million for finding this inadequacy of the module.
Turned out that fixing the issue was extremely easy; adding a property_type:text attribute to the type declarations of the module's hook_field_info() implementation.

That's the beauty of working on a platform that has a rich community - took me no time to find these super relevants posts:
Entity API (and Rules) integration for mediafield and Property info for fields.

I've tested rules integration by creating a rule which listened to the value of a hidden text field, and changed the value of another hidden integer field - and that worked swell (after this fix, that is ;-).
I have no idea if there's still is a problem when working with the EntityForm module. Please tell me if there is.
I doubt that this module would be able to do much about that - but please tell me anyway.

The issue is fixed in the latest release, 7.x-1.2.

Hi,

I found another problem with rules. When i need to select integer value, in data selection, Hidden Integer is not listed. It appears that if i need to select text value the Hidden Integer is listed as well.

I looked in the code and in field_hidden.module at line 128 the property_type for field_hidden_integer is 'text'. I changed it to 'integer' and that fixed the problem.

@BenSF
Awesome!
I'll test it this weekend and roll a patch and a release.

Great!
Thanks for the quick response. ;)

Well, a patch at least, for now.

@amitsedaiz
I would like to make a new 7.x release, which alters nothing but incorporating the fix to this issue.
I don't expect any other changes to 7.x in the future, so this would sort of wrap up things nicely for 7.x.

@PhilY and @BenSF: Great Work.

@jacobfriis: Tested it and found it integrating with rules very well.

I began looking into how native field types support rules integration via property_type. I found property_type is missing in number.module file in number_field_info(). However, in the entity_field_info_alter(&$field_info) in entity.property.inc file for the common field types, property_type has been added by the entity.module.

Please go ahead with creating a new release if required. I guess it makes sense to work on using hook_widget_info() to specify hidden widget type for the common field types in D7 so that any such future possibilities which other modules provide may be taken care of. I will work on it for sometime and keep you updated. Thanks.

Fixed in release 7.x-1.7.