Change workflow state
margie_s - July 6, 2007 - 19:45
| Project: | Views Actions Links |
| Version: | 5.x-1.0 |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
I am using views_actions_links to 'change workflow state of a node to next state'. However, it toggles between 2 of my 3 states and never gets to the 3rd. Do you know why?
Thanks.
#1
I have not used the workflow module, so my response may be somewhat unenlightened. At the risk of asking a silly question, I should ask if you've configured the actions properly (independent of the views_actions_links) module. The reason I suspect it hasn't to do with this module is because all this module does is provide a field that contains a link to a MENU_CALLBACK that executes the necessary action.
I am sorry I cannot be of more help on this. If I have a chance, I will install Workflow on a test site and attempt to set up a similar situation.
#2
I implemented a patch to define a new action that would allow a change from a state to any state in the workflow. I noticed an issue with function views_actions_links_provide_link().
return l($action['description'], 'views_actions_links/action/' . $action['function'] . '/' . $nid, array(),Note that the variable $action['function'] causes the name of the function representing a particular action to always be passed to Actions module actions_do() function.
The problem is that for configured actions with defined instances, the action id (actions.aid which is numeric) must be passed instead, otherwise the link won't work. I changed $action['function'] above to $action['aid'] which works for both configured and non-configured actions. If you make this change, you should also change Actions module actions_get_all_actions() to return the 'aid' field value of actions too.