Batch update node titles

I agree that this would be a nice feature, anybody?

I'll look into this; I've needed this too often myself. I'm relatively new to Drupal development, so this might take a while.

This can be done with views bulk operations module once we commit #348860: Operate during nodeapi('presave'), not node form submit handler

Nice? It should be a *wonderful* feature! (I have more than 700 old contents to update!)

I noticed that it's necessary to automatically update only the title...

The mentioned issue has been fixed in the dev branch - so please test the method described.

I'm trying the new -dev version, but I don't find how to batch update node title.

Can you explain?

Thanks a lot,
Alessandro

Same here, I don't see any code that would allow the bulk update neither in 5.x or 6.x

I had some time at hand, so I looked into this a bit more. Here is a patch against the 5.x branch of the module. Please have a look (also if the patch format is correct; I'm not used yet to CVS).
Thanks,
Gerald

P.S. (edit): Note that the node only gets saved if the newly calculated title is different from the old one.

This patch is sort of not needed anymore, since titles are recalculated during nodeapi(presave). If you do *anything* on the admin/cotnent/node or in views bulk operations, you will get your new title

Moshe,
Thanks for your feedback. The two patches are not mutually exclusive; I'd be happy if both were accepted (I can also create a patch for D6). If I just want to update node titles, I can run the explicit action, otherwise I know now that any other action will update them, too. It would be odd if I had to unpublish/republish nodes just to update the node title.

Yeah, I'll agree that it would be reasonable for ANT to offer a node operation that secretly did nothing but mark the node for saving.

thanks, I've just committed it to 5.x-dev - however I forgot to give you credits for your patch. SRY!

I've fixed a code style issue: it's if () { - please watch out for that.
A patch for d6 would be great.

Just to make sure, is it now possible to bulk update the titles with the dev version for Drupal 6 as well, or we are still waiting for the patch mentionnedi in comment no. 3 to get in??

Patchak

Patchak,
I'll be creating a D6 patch for the bulk update in the admin section as requested by fago in comment no. 15. It's going to take me about a week from now (I have first to set up the D6 test environment).

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Patch for Drupal 6 created here: #360359: Batch update node titles (for D6)

I've backported the fixes from 6.x - see #360359: Batch update node titles (for D6) to 5.x-1.x-dev.