Hi!
Is it possible to publish various related content types with Workflow-ng?

I'm developing a journal site. The journal has this content type:

  • Issues
  • Articles
  • Authors
  • Comments

The relationship (with CCK node reference) between content types are:

  • 1 Issue has many articles nodes
  • 1 article has 1 author node
  • 1 article has 1 comments node

I would like when I publish an Issue, then get published all related content:

  • articles number 1 included in this Issue:
    • Author node related to this article
    • Comments node related to this article
  • articles number 2 included in this Issue:
    • Author node related to this article
    • Comments node related to this article
  • ...

Comments

amitaibu’s picture

amitaibu
Primary language Hebrew
Location Israel
commented
Component: Miscellaneous » Documentation
Status: Active » Fixed

You can create a PHP action that will do it, but currently you have no action to do it automatically for you. I think in Rules (i.e. D6) this will be possible, as it will be integrated with the Views module and allow looping actions.

clemens.tolboom’s picture

clemens.tolboom
Primary language Dutch
Location Groningen, 🇳🇱/🇪🇺
commented
Status: Fixed » Active

I reopened this because the resolution proposed is not workable for the average user right? I did I miss something from workflow_ng making this easy.

I'm about to publish a module to drill down through CCK node reference fields. It will be very rough and maybe to specific yet.

What do we need to solve this issue?

How to make these actions configurable? Drill down to Issues or to Authors?

I know how to write an action to get to the NID's but how to process these further?

Some pointers would help.

fago’s picture

fago
Primary language German
Location Vienna
commented

Generic support for "sets of entities" won't come before 6.x. But you could do a solution perhaps as action, which loops over the set of array and throws an event for each node or so.