Fetch entity by property - hidden limit [#2395867]

In the Rules action "Fetch entity by property" there is a form field "Limit the maximum number of fetched entities."

The default value is 10, but this can be blanked out. I was under the impression that a blank limit field = no limit. But this blank field falls back to the default value of 10.

Either is this a bug or bad documentation. I suggest that as a quick fix this form field is made mandatory as a sort of guidance. But I can't create patches, so for the moment I hope someone else can.

For the future I hope that a bland field will be = no limit.

/Leiph

Comments

Comment #1

jjemmett CreditAttribution: jjemmett commented 6 May 2015 at 20:58

I also fell victim to this little 'feature'. My preference would be that if the limit field is blanked out it would return all entities with no limit.

Comment #2

mrweiner CreditAttribution: mrweiner commented 19 July 2017 at 19:43

Just got hit by this on a project as well. It really doesn't make sense that there's a hidden limit of 10 in here. Even just descriptive text stating that a blank field would be treated as 10 would be incredibly helpful.