I wrote this quick hack to be inserted in pathauto.module.


/**
 * Implementation of hook_node_operations().
 */
function pathauto_node_operations() {
  $operations = array(
    'publish' => array(
      'label' => t('Update path alias'),
      'callback' => 'pathauto_node_operations_update',
    ),
  );
  return $operations;
}

/**
 * Callback function for updating node aliases.
 */
function pathauto_node_operations_update($nodes) {
  foreach ($nodes as $nid) {
    $node = node_load($nid);
    $placeholders = pathauto_get_placeholders('node', $node);
    pathauto_create_alias('node', 'bulkupdate', $placeholders, "node/$node->nid", $node->nid, $node->type);
  }
}

It adds an option to the Node Operations the select box in admin/content/node, which updates the path aliases of the selected nodes. I suspect this can't be so easy, or it would have been done before.

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#6 pathauto.module.patch443 bytespsynaptic
#5 pathauto.module.patch469 bytespsynaptic
#2 pathauto_219726.patch899 byteswaddles

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Can you provide it as a patch?
Can you get someone else who uses node_operations module to test it (I don't use it and don't entirely plan on it).

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waddles commented
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Yes, it really is that simple. :)

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Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Fixed

Great - thanks, wad!

Committed to both DRUPAL-5--2 and HEAD (for 6.x).

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psynaptic commented

I think this removes the Publish option from the Update options. Can anyone else confirm this?

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psynaptic commented
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Changing the name of the element seems to fix it.

Before:

function pathauto_node_operations() {
  $operations = array(
    'publish' => array(
      'label' => t('Update path alias'),
      'callback' => 'pathauto_node_operations_update',
    ),
  );
  return $operations;
}

After:

function pathauto_node_operations() {
  $operations = array(
    'update_alias' => array(
      'label' => t('Update path alias'),
      'callback' => 'pathauto_node_operations_update',
    ),
  );
  return $operations;
}

I can now see the Publish option in the Update options again. I have tested Updates path alias and Publish and they both work as expected.

Unified diff attached.

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psynaptic commented
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new pathauto.module.patch443 bytes

Here's another patch where I ran the patch program from the Drupal root. Hope this helps.

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Category: feature » bug
Priority: Normal » Critical
Status: Fixed » Needs review

yeah, see http://drupal.org/node/226914 for the bug report on this...

Seems critical bug now and since you have the patch here I'll repurpose this issue...

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greggles
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Status: Needs review » Fixed

Applied to both 5.x-2 and 6.x.

Thanks psynaptic!

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psynaptic commented

Glad to be of service.

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poehnix commented

Patch works

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

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i have Pathauto 5.x-2.1, this patch is applied, and now the 'Update path alias' is missing :)

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@eaposztrof - the way you describe that sounds like a bug, but you used a smiley and left the status as closed so I'm not sure.

I can't repeat that bug (it works fine for me) so I'm not sure what this means.

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wmclark commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

This still seems like a bug in 2.1. Although the new functionality is added, it introduces a new bug in which you can not bulk publish nodes.

The correct patch does not to seem to have been applied to pathauto.module in the 2.1 version. I just download a fresh copy and checked the code.

After changing the code described here, I can now bulk publish nodes again.

The correct patch needs to be applied to 2.1.

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Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

@wmclark - it was applied to 5.x-2.x-dev. Please test that release, it is quite stable now and will soon become 5.x-2.2. There is no way to apply a patch to an existing release and still have it be called 5.x-2.1...

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wmclark commented

Ok, I just manually did the patch myself. Since it is on production I prefer to leave it the "stable" version.

Thanks greggles