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Patterns can include subpatterns. This is a partially experimental feature, and under certain circumstances users must take care of avoiding infinite recursion of included patterns.
From the LAB page of the patterns menu is possible to combine multiple together with one of the following options for inclusion:
- All the sections (info and modules included) of the pattern
- Actions only (info and modules sections excluded) of the pattern
- The unique name of the pattern
- The numerical id of the pattern
Notice that, including the pattern by reference (name or id), may limit its portability. On the other hand, it allows to write polimorphic patterns.
Execution mode for sub-patterns
The following options are available for sub-patterns execution:
- Never run
- Only during the first run
- Only if pattern was updated
- If it is the first run or if the pattern was updated
- Only if the pattern code is attached (no lookup to database)
- Always
Example
---
info:
title: Example of included patterns
category: General
description: No description
version: 1.0
core: x.y
author: root
author_email: me@i.org
author_website: localhost
lab:
-
include:
pattern:
info:
title: Create a menu
description: Based on http://drupal.org/node/408952
author: QScience
category: Menu
version: 1.0
core: 7.x
author_email: me@i.org
author_website: qlectives.eu
actions:
-
create:
tag: menu
name: footer-links
title: Footer Links
description: Menu description.
-
include:
pattern:
info:
title: 'Taxonomy Vocabulary ADD -- working'
description: Adds a vocabulary
author: QScience
category: Taxonomy
version: 1.0
core: 7.x
author_email: me@i.org
author_website: http://qlectives.eu/
actions:
-
create:
tag: vocabulary
name: Another Vocabulary
machine_name: anothervoc
description: Another Vocabulary, useless
hierarchy: 0
-
include:
pattern:
info:
title: Toolbarrole (modify)
description: >
deside what kind of users (roles) can
see the toolbar.
author: QScience
category: Toolbar
version: 1.0
core: 7.x
author_email: me@i.org
author_website: http://qlectives.eu/
actions:
-
modify:
tag: toolbarrole
addroles:
- anonymous user
delroles:
-
include:
pattern:
info:
title: edit the shortcut set name(modify)
description: >
change the shortcut set old name to new
name
author: QScience
category: Shortcut
version: 1.0
core: 7.x
author_email: me@i.org
author_website: http://qlectives.eu/
actions:
-
modify:
tag: shortcut_set
oldname: new_set_fortest
newname: newer_set_fortest
# Patterns exported: 4
# Date and time: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:06:02 +0200