Add token replacement support for non-entities [#1032356]

I've been testing the Rules module in conjunction with some contributed modules that support Rules like Userpoints (http://drupal.org/project/userpoints) and Janrain Engage (http://drupal.org/project/rpx). When I create an action (such as 'Send a mail') on a module-specific event (such as 'User was awarded points' for the Userpoints module), I'm not seeing any available replacement patterns except ones for 'Site information'.

I do see, however, the $userpoints_transaction variable available under 'PHP evaluation' (and I can successfully use it with PHP).

And I do seem to remember Userpoints replacement patterns being available previously on the action.

So is it possible that some recent Rules/Entity change made replacement tokens not available for objects declared with hook_rules_data_info() ?

Thanks,
Ben

Comments

Comment #1

fago

German

Vienna

commented 19 January 2011 at 16:55

Title:	No replacement tokens available for objects declared with hook_rules_data_info()	» Add token replacement support for non-entities
Component:	Rules Core	» Rules Engine
Category:	bug	» task

>And I do seem to remember Userpoints replacement patterns being available previously on the action.

hm, I doubt that, because I've not implemented that feature yet ;) Shouldn't be hard though, as we could basically do the same as entity_tokens does for entities. Maybe another module provided the tokens though.

Comment #2

BenK commented 19 January 2011 at 19:14

Hey fago,

Thanks for the clarification. Yes, this would be a very helpful feature for a lot of the contributed modules I work on that have Rules integration. We're always wanting to include module-related tokens in the triggered Rules action (especially actions that involve displaying or sending messages).

Once there is a patch in the works, let me know and I am happy to manually test and report back.

Cheers,
Ben

Comment #3

berdir

German

Switzerland

commented 14 February 2011 at 14:25

Subscribe and cross-reference #958288: Add replacement patterns within Rules for Userpoints transactions. According to that issue over there, it did never work.

As an alternative, will rules.module pick up existing "normal" tokens if the type matches?

Comment #4

fago

German

Vienna

commented 14 February 2011 at 15:32

yep, of course. Rules just runs usual token replacements.

Comment #5

berdir

German

Switzerland

commented 14 February 2011 at 18:56

Ok, working on that.

Short question, sorry for hijacking the issue, failed to catch you in IRC :)

Is there a reason you're not using the fancy token-browser widget from token.module when it's available other than "Nobody implemented it"?

It looks like your table doesn't pick up recursive tokens nor can you insert them into the textfield/area by simply clicking on them. Especially the first is a bummer, because it really limits the usability of the whole thing.

I can write a patch if you're interested...