Why can't you schedule an existing rule? [#360740]

1. Why can't you schedule an existing rule? Wouldn't that be easier than rule sets?

2. Why do rule sets not let you do the same things you can do with rules?

What I want to do is schedule a node to be unpublished 2 weeks after it is published, but I can't figure out any way to do this.

Comments

Comment #1

mattbk commented 19 January 2009 at 17:00

Version:	6.x-1.0-beta3	» 6.x-1.x-dev
Component:	Miscellaneous	» Documentation

I am beginning to understand...I downloaded the most recent Dev and it has slightly more documentation. I really enjoy the "X actions are not configurable," because it led me back to starting a new rule set in which I could add some arguments.

A suggestion, that there be some indication of what arguments are able to be used once you have set them, because I was confused for a moment on how to change the arguments on an existing rule--which you can't, but it would be nice to have them shown, so that you would realize that you couldn't change them and would have to create a new ruleset.

Also, it would be useful to know that if you select an argument from the dropdown in the middle, the fields will autopopulate. The first time I looked at it I was afraid I would mess something up by putting values into those boxes and so I didn't, which meant I couldn't do what I wanted. :-)

I don't know if everything will work out yet, but I wanted to recognize the improvement before I went on. This really is an awesome module.

Comment #2

fago

German

Vienna

commented 5 February 2009 at 11:12

>A suggestion, that there be some indication of what arguments are able to be used once you have set them, because I was confused for a moment on how to change the arguments on an existing rule--which you can't, but it would be nice to have them shown, so that you would realize that you couldn't change them and would have to create a new ruleset.

Thanks for the suggestion, that makes sense. (Patches welcome!)

>Also, it would be useful to know that if you select an argument from the dropdown in the middle, the fields will autopopulate. The first time I looked at it I was afraid I would mess something up by putting values into those boxes and so I didn't, which meant I couldn't do what I wanted. :-)

Hm, right. Perhaps I should move the select to the most left input column, so one starts with it?