Using Views Bulk Operations VBO to mass update date fields

By derp on 5 Mar 2012 at 12:03 UTC

Dear all,

I am trying to bulk update content using the VBO module from http://drupal.org/project/views_bulk_operations . All is working as expected and I can succesfully change certain information (workflow states etc).

All nodes of this particular content type have a date field (amonst other fields). I would very much like to control this date field using VBO and have been trying to get this to work but without any luck.

I am using latest modules available.

Any pointers into doing this would be more than welcome.

Best,
derp.

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ayesh commented 5 March 2012 at 15:01

You can do this with Rules Sets or with a custom action for VBO module.

Rules sets with appropriate arguments (nodes, user, etc) can be used as actions in VBO. You have to create a Rules set with a node input and put rules in it, so users can execute Rules Set through VBO.

Also see actions folder in VBO for some example actions. If you are a at least little familiar with Drupal $node and php date formatting, you can do this easily.

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