Last updated May 23, 2012. Created by fago on August 22, 2008.
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This is Rules
Rules is an engine for automating actions in Drupal. Rules can react on events occurring on your site, such as a user logging in or a node being submitted, and it can perform customized follow-up actions such as redirecting to a certain page or setting field values.
Rules is also a framework used by other modules, allowing them to expose user-reconfigurable components with sets of actions and
conditions that are managed in easy to import/export configuration files. Rules leverages Entity API to read and act on data and work seamlessly with all types of variables and entities.
Additional resources:
Note: these may not be updated to reflect recently added features.
- Drupalize.me "Coding for Rules"
- Introduction to Rules - NodeOne Learning Library video tutorials.
- Learn Rules with NodeOne - Drupal 6 video tutorials.
- The Tiny Book of Rules - a condensed introduction to Rules.
- Chapter 12 - the online version of Drupal 7 – The Essentials
General Note: Rules is the successor of the workflow-ng module for Drupal 5; it is a replacement for trigger module, which is in Drupal 7 Core and has been removed from Drupal 8.