Hi there,
Great module. Running into an issue wherein I had populated a node field called "State" with a token from the Address field module. It works well, but this last time, I populated with the wrong token (used full state name rather than 2-letter codes for each state). I try to use VBO to overwrite the field value for the ones I made the mistake on, but it doesn't have any effect. What do I need to do? Action I'm applying is "modify node fields." Don't know how to write a custom action so hopefully don't need to do that.
Marc

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infojunkie
Location Vancouver
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What is the type of the "State" field? This might be an issue with an exotic field type. Can you make further experiments to ensure that "Modify node fields" works for other fields (e.g. title, other CCK fields like text fields, etc.) ?

Also, please attach screenshots because I might be interpreting your description wrongly.

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dc_marc commented
Priority: Normal » Minor
Status: Active » Postponed

Node field State is a plain text field. It definitely works for other fields like Link and other plain text fields. Seems to be an issue of overwriting specifically. I will see if I can put together a screenshot, but all it'd show is that, e.g. after executive the VBO action, the field still showed the old value.

I've temporarily worked around the issue by creating a second plain text field_state2 and just populating that with the same token and replacing the original field_state for filtering purposes.

I'm changing the priority to minor since I have a temporary workaround.

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infojunkie
Location Vancouver
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Not sure what's wrong, because overwriting values works well on my end. Would there be an automatic assignment of this field (e.g. using Rules) that is triggered on node updating?

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bojanz commented
Status: Postponed » Closed (cannot reproduce)

Reopen if / when you can provide more information to infojunkie.