While the dropdown control is a good tool for situations with lots of operations, when there are just a few operations it is faster for users and easier to understand if the elements are presented as buttons.

This feature request is for an administrator control in the views definition that allows the admin to specify whether the "Bulk operations" form at the top of the view is based on a dropdown.

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mitchell commented

Greggles, have you tried Flag module? It does just that.

Right now, I think there is significant overlap in exactly what you are talking about. VBO is missing single operators, and Flag is missing batch operations. We're talking about this now over at: #353534: Add Checkboxes as Display Type.

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infojunkie
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Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

This feature exists in VBO today. In the view settings, click on the Bulk Operations settings icon (the gear icon) and select "Display operations as" > "Each action as a separate button". You cannot set a number of operations where this option would kick in, so you have to choose it explicitly.

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infojunkie
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@mitchell, I don't understand how VBO and Flag overlap. Whereas VBO only exists to apply arbitrary actions on the records (nodes and otherwise) returned by a view, Flag allows to create user-defined lists of nodes. In fact, Flag exposes node operations that are picked up by VBO in order to ease flagging many nodes at once.

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greggles
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I can't believe I missed that - thanks kratib!

(I also don't immediately understand how VBO and Flag overlap...)