Convert Node Action

I suggest redirecting this feature request to the Node Convert maintainers as they know best how to package their functionality as an action. VBO will automatically pick it up then.

Hello,

I am the maintainer of Views Bulk Operations, a module that allows to perform operations on Views results. The module can invoke any operation written as an Action in the Drupal 6 sense.

It would make sense to package your conversion functionality as an action, as this would allow both Drupal triggers and View Bulk Operations to take advantage of your code without programming.

Thanks for your consideration,
Karim

Working on it.
But there seems to be a problem. Node convert needs a multistep form to collect all relevant data and convert all data successfully, and I'm not sure that Actions API or VBO has the appropriate case so that you can use multistep forms.

Implemented in 6.x-1.4 release.

Hmm.. So, I see the Covert Node action when defining a new action, but despite having defined a template to amp the fields, when presented with the form for identifying the template, i am left with a select menu with only as an option.

This is with node_convert 1.4

Thoughts or suggestions?

Ah. I see the problem. from line 898 in node_convert.module:

function node_convert_check_template_permission_user($data) {
  if (!empty($data['template'])) {
    $template = $data['template'];
  }
  elseif (!empty($data['template_id'])) {
    $template = node_convert_load_template($template_id);
  }
  else
    return FALSE;

  $access = user_access('convert from '. $template['source_type']) && user_access('convert to '. $template['destination_type']);
  return $access;
}

is trying to load the template from an uninitialized variable $template_id. It should read:

    $template = node_convert_load_template($data['template_id']);

#7 worked for me to help convert 20+ nodes using node convert and VBO. thanks!

Fixed in http://drupal.org/node/474442 . Thanks.