Provide drush option for date range to match the functionality from UI.

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#8 provide_drush_option_to-1560078-8.patch2.53 KBhumansky
#5 devel-provide-drush-option-1560078-5.patch1.62 KBbarraponto
#3 drush-iq-provide-drush-option-to-randomize-1560078-4.patch1.61 KBbarraponto
#1 devel-config-random-post-dates-1560078-1.png45.04 KBfengtan
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fengtan
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I believe that generated nodes' post date is already randomly distributed between "now" and the selected period you pick when you create content (see attached screenshot).

I had a quick test and noticed that post dates were indeed randomly created (edit generated nodes and check the "Authoring information" fields)

Did you mean something else ?

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barraponto CreditAttribution: barraponto commented
Title: provide option to random generate node's post date » Provide drush option to randomize post date within a time range
Version: 7.x-1.2 » 7.x-1.x-dev

Indeed, dates are randomized in the form (the web user interface) but there's no option in the Drush command (the command line interface). Let's fix that! With this patch you can use date strings (it will use strtotime behind the curtains):

drush generate-content 420 0 --since='last year'

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barraponto CreditAttribution: barraponto commented
Status: Active » Needs review
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drush-iq-provide-drush-option-to-randomize-1560078-4.patch1.61 KB
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moshe weitzman CreditAttribution: moshe weitzman commented
Status: Needs review » Needs work

Please add one or two examples on the command definition

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barraponto CreditAttribution: barraponto commented
Status: Needs work » Needs review
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devel-provide-drush-option-1560078-5.patch1.62 KB

Patch submitted by the Drush iq-submit command.

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rj CreditAttribution: rj commented

This worked for me, would love to see it committed. Thanks.

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moshe weitzman CreditAttribution: moshe weitzman commented
Issue summary: View changes
Status: Needs review » Needs work

Still needs Examples in Drush help and needs D8 port.

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humansky CreditAttribution: humansky as a volunteer commented
Status: Needs work » Needs review
Issue tags: +needs Drupal 8 port
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provide_drush_option_to-1560078-8.patch2.53 KB

Slightly different approach to the same problem, with added test conditions to verify the date is within valid range. Let me know what you guys think. If you like it, I will create a D8 version.

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MustangGB CreditAttribution: MustangGB commented

I think #5 is the superior approach due to the increased flexibility.

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jonathan1055 CreditAttribution: jonathan1055 as a volunteer commented
Version: 7.x-1.x-dev » 4.x-dev
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Status: Needs review » Needs work

This is still missing. It would be good to have the drush option to match the UI option. Latest dev version is now 4.x The issue has been migrated to DrupalSpoons
https://gitlab.com/drupalspoons/devel/-/issues/237