Creating a trigger that fires when a new node is created with a specific taxonomy term

Posted by kopo88 on June 13, 2008 at 4:03am

I'm working on a site where I need different roles to be asked to approve a new node, depending on which term the node is tagged with. I'm using Actions 5.x-2.5 and Workflow 5.x-2.2 to set up the workflow.

I think that I have to write a trigger to fire based on the terms assigned to a new node. Has anyone done something similar and would be able to provide some guidance?

I know that there is a Taxonomy Actions module, but it doesn't quite seem to be appropriate here because it apparently defines taxonomy actions rather than triggers. (Also, I haven't managed to get it to actually show up anywhere in the Actions and Triggers setup pages, but that's probably just me.)

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I'm attempting the same thing

Posted by Dinis on March 27, 2009 at 1:22pm

I'm attempting the same thing in Drupal 6, did you have any success?

Regards,
Danielle

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Posted by AtomicTangerine on July 20, 2011 at 1:59pm

I'm trying to do something similar. I've only just begun my research into this particular desired functionality, but I figured I would drop a comment here, even though this is really old. I'm not using taxonomy, but the basic idea of something happening when a user goes to create a new node of a certain content type (extremely similar to one of a certain Taxonomy, still a new node). I've discovered lots of terminology and modules: Workflow (not at d7 yet...), Rules, Triggers, Actions, Workbench (haven't looked into yet though), and even contemplated using Conditional Fields with Computed Field, which I may revisit.

Basically, I want the timestamp of node creation (not save), to be recorded as a field for/in the node. Any future lurkers out there, feel free to comment here, I will post my answer if/when I find it, so if you don't see another comment here, please share your knowledge haha.

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Posted by WorldFallz on July 20, 2011 at 2:26pm

You should be able to do this with rules without custom code. Otherwise, I'd consider custom coding into it right into a hook_node_insert. You should also be able to do it with a custom trigger and action, but hook_node_insert is more direct.

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