"Do Nothing" Should Still create aliases for unaliased items

As long as they have Verbose on this idea seems reasonable to me.

Bumping version - given that we're in a string freeze for 5.x-2.x and 6.x-1.x and given that this is a feature it should just be in 6.x-2.x-dev.

The other question is that apparently "Do nothing" used to actually mean "Do nothing unless it has no alias and in that case do something"

So...I guess we should bring that back since a lot of people liked it.

The thread indicates that it's never been reverted to "Do nothing unless it has no alias and in that case do something". Is this correct?

I agree that this change or a message would be beneficial.

I agree with #3 that it should be changed back to mean "...unless it has no alias and in that case do something".

Subscribing.

I agree this button should either do something, or there should be a fifth option added that DOES do something.

This is especially counter-intuitive when the checkbox for bulk updates reads "Generate aliases for all existing terms which do not already have aliases.", making it seem like marking the checkbox will cause some action to occur.

I agree that it should alias items that are do not get have an alias. I just spent a good chunk of time debugging why it was generating 0 aliases when they clearly did not exist.

And this was on the 5.x version for me.

-Ed

Tagging all the bulk alias issues for #713238: RFC: Pathauto Bulk module.

Marked the following issues as duplicates of this issue:
#478718: Update action "do nothing" should do more...
#338702: update action should *always* happen if 'automatic alias' checkbox is checked.
#342626: Update Action Logic
#580596: Taxonomy bulk update is not working when update action is set to 'do nothing'
#267455: Force recreation of alias

Not sure what the status is on updating what for which version, but for those interested here's a patch for 1.3 that fixes the issue for me.

Gah, this is really a duplicate of #228762: Un-aliased nodes should still get an alias generated even if the update action is 'Do nothing with existing aliases' as well.