As we discussed shortly at the Rules workshop on the Drupalcity camp in Berlin, it may be a good idea to provide the ability to disable some Rules components for testing purposes during site building.

Until now, as there isn't such an option, if you want to test how a rule works without a certain component, you have to delete the component (and to rebuild it again and again while testing).

I guess, this feature request is especially relevant for Rules conditions and actions, maybe not for events. However, combining elements of the same component type, a rule may become quite complex. In my opinion, the ability to disable single conditions or actions would provide a good support in looking for logical errors / misconfiguration issues.

(See attached a screenshot of the relevant Rules admin page.)

CommentFileSizeAuthor
#9 enable_disable_rule_elements-1288874-9.patch10.5 KBvasike
#3 Screen shot 2012-02-21 at 02.50.56.png11.55 KBbsandor
rules-components-admin-page.png12.92 KBolafski

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olafski’s picture

olafski
Location Hamburg
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typo

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bsandor commented
Title: Provide disable/enable link for Rules conditions » Provide disable/enable link for Rules Conditions & Actions
Component: User Interface » User interface

I think this gives a big-big improovement.

fago’s picture

fago
Primary language German
Location Vienna
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Version: 7.x-2.0-rc1 » 7.x-2.x-dev

Sounds like a good idea to me, needs some work though.

bsandor’s picture

bsandor commented
Title: Provide disable/enable link for Rules Conditions & Actions » Provide disable/enable Link or Checkbox for Rules Conditions & Actions
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new Screen shot 2012-02-21 at 02.50.56.png11.55 KB

I think it should go into both 6.x and 7.x

Also I think the best solution is a checkbox like in the attached picture:

chefnelone’s picture

chefnelone commented
Component: User interface » User Interface

I also think that this feature would be very useful.

AdrianB’s picture

AdrianB commented

Found this issue when searching for a way to temporary disable an action without deleteing and recreating it. I guess this issue means that there is no way to do that today?

mitchell’s picture

mitchell commented

There's a sandbox project that kinda does this from #1768430: Add actions commenting, see Comment Rules. It depends on Conditional Rules.

cursor’s picture

cursor commented

+1 for this. Any progress on this?

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adam_b commented

+1

vasike’s picture

vasike
Location Ramnicu Valcea
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Status: Active » Needs review
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new enable_disable_rule_elements-1288874-9.patch10.5 KB

here is a patch with a first work on this.
any review/feedback is welcomed.

this element status could be somehow used for disabling/enabling modules with Rules elements definitions?

Status: Needs review » Needs work

The last submitted patch, enable_disable_rule_elements-1288874-9.patch, failed testing.

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rbrownell
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Primary language English
Location Gatineau, Québec, Canada
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There is a sandbox module that works really well for this. It is called Rules Developer comments. You can find it at http://drupal.org/sandbox/onkeltem/1719474

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rbrownell
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Location Gatineau, Québec, Canada
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another typo (sorry for not having used preview)

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delacosta456 commented
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hy @rbrownel

any update please ?

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tr commented
Related issues: +#871616: Components: enable / disable