Computed Field and Auto Node Title

How do you get the computed field's value into the node title? In my setup, computed field does not expose it's values as token, so there's no replacement pattern I could enter for automatic title generation.

Thanks & greetings,
-asb

While this response may be too late for you, I think your problem may be related to this:

#414088: Computed fields should compute on $op='presave' and/or $op='validate'

while I'll be looking into here...

I'm sure you're right - the computation has to happen before the value is tokenised or the value can't be available.

I'd been thinking it was simply an issue with module weights?

I've been struggling with the same problem. Is it as simple as patching the module to change the operation to presave or are there other considerations?

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This should be fixed per #414088: Computed fields should compute on $op='presave' and/or $op='validate'

For anyone stumbling across this.. I found a win in passing a value in the $node (auto_nodetitle) and $entity (computed_field) objects like:

Auto Node Title config on content type using PHP eval:

$field = $node->field_card_cardid[$node->language];
$node->c4c_cardid = (is_array($field) && isset($field[0])) ? $field[0]['value'] : _c4c_generate_cardid();
return "Card No: " . $node->c4c_cardid;

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Computed Field config:

// $entity object is assigned ->c4c_cardid property in auto_nodetitle php snippet on this content type
$entity_field[0]['value'] = $entity->c4c_cardid;

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Bonus tucked in, so here's what all is going on:

1. Create Node Title (provided by auto_nodetitle) based on an external function. Only calculate it if this value has not already been calculated (ie. Node Create).
2. Store the important part to store in an entity field directly on the $node object (assumed passed by reference). This doesn't get saved to db, only makes it available to other node operations down the road.
3. Computed field (provided by computed_field module) simply looks for and uses the temporary property on its $entity ($node) object in scope.

The added bonus here is that my computed field does *not* update with each node save (desired behavior in my use case). The overall take-away here is that auto_nodetitle has access to and can modify $node and fires before computed_field which has access to and can modify $entity. Note: You can always debug with dsm($node) and dsm($entity) in the respective eval blocks with the devel module.

Appears to work for me thus far... hth