By stunch on

I have a content type that has a node reference field that reads from a View and this works great. The view is referencing another content type with a specific field output. If I change the field of the referenced content type so that it no longer appears in the View, it will no longer be listed inside the "Edit" of the original page, which is also great.

However the original selected reference node still remains on the page, the only way to remove this is to access the page, select edit (this then shows the remaining reference nodes with the specific output) and upon the save it removes the one that's no longer listed in the View.

My question is, has any one developed of overcome this issue so that there is a forced page>edit>save, maybe connected to a cronjob or maybe when the referenced content type is saved, it automatically saves the other content type, or maybe a button that will cause a mass edit>save of a particular content type?

I'd appreciate any comments regarding this.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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Kirk’s picture

Kirk commented

Views Bulk Operations has a "Modify node fields" action that should help you out http://drupal.org/project/views_bulk_operations

I haven't tried it on D7 yet, so YMMV.

stunch’s picture

stunch commented

Hi Kirk,

I really appreciate the reply, I have installed VBO and have implemented a bulk operations page, which seems to function very well, however my problem still exists in that although I'm able to bulk save, this is not performing the action of actually editing the node and then saving it.

When I manually select the edit tab on the node I'm presented with a field that no longer lists the non active item, so by then choosing to save it removes it from the page.

The VBO "save content" operation is definitely saving on bulk, but it's not emulating a edit>save which I can do manually.

Maybe someone out there has achieved this with a custom method of VBO operation?

Yura Filimonov’s picture

Yura Filimonov commented

As you probably know, there was a Multi Node Edit Module.

Then again, it probably is semi-automatic, rather than the automatic variant you want.

I wonder if anyone is secretly using a similar module or wants to share how to mass edit nodes (i.e., edit photo titles/descriptions).

Thanks.

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anruether
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commented

Hm, VBO comes close to what I am looking for.

But what if I need a page which displays each node in a row. The fields that are being displayed shall be customizable, but the important think would be that I do not have to open each node separatly if I want to make changes to many nodes.

That would help a lot...thanks for any hints. best, Andi

webadpro’s picture

webadpro commented

http://drupal.org/project/editablefields is what you want.

Create a view with all your fields ;)

Sundara.ds’s picture

Sundara.ds commented

Found solution for bulk update?

MakeOnlineShop’s picture

MakeOnlineShop commented

Hello,

Have you found a way to mass edit the description field on selected nodes ?

Thank you.