VBO for Drupal 6

This is a documentation page for Views Bulk Operations

To setup a simple view which has operations take these steps:

1. Edit the default view the module gives you (/admin/content/node2) or make a new view and set the style to Bulk Operations.

2. Click the gears next to Style: Bulk Operations in the Basic settings box of your view.

3. Scroll to the end of the page and click on the checkboxes of the actions you want to use for your views.

4. Go to your view and all the actions you checked will be in the actions dropdown.

5. Try out an action on some nodes like adding taxonomy terms.

Copying data between fields with VBO

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In a website for comparing products you typically want to show a general list of products that can be sorted. You also want the user to be

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This guide applies to Drupal 6 only, last updated for release 6.x-1.13. There is a Drupal 7 VBO development guide available. Please note