Hi

Could anybody, please, tell if workflow module can be used for doing/checking things periodically and making a state transition basing on the check results?

I am trying to enhance the Digg-like "voting up down" module so that promotion to the front page would be dependent on time. For example, besides a number of votes every node could have an internal counter increased by the votes and decreased [to 0] by the time. Then whenever the internal counter of a node will be bigger, than internal counter of the current front page nodes, the newly popular node would be promoted to the front page.

It would allow for really popular items to be promoted to the front page faster. For example, 50 votes within an our would outperform 500 votes within two weeks.

If such behavior is currently not possible by the workflow module, I am not afraid of some php programming to make it possible. However, before diving in I'd like to hear the advise on where to start and how complex it it.

-Artem.

P.S.
If it matters, I myself am interested in 4.7 solution

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fago’s picture

fago
Primary language German
Location Vienna
commented

I think the answer to this sort of problem would be the view scheduler project, however I don't know if it's still maintained.

Artem’s picture

Artem commented

Hmm, there are several "scheduler"-like named modules. I'll have a look at those.

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Bastlynn commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Hi,

This ticket was last updated over 4 years ago, and hasn't seen additional work since then. Based on that, and that development is now progressing on Drupal 7, I'm going to go ahead and close this one out. If you would still like to see this feature, please post a request for Drupal 7, then we can work on the Drupal 6 version.

- Bastlynn