Action: delete node

Is there another way to do this? If not, is it in the roadmap?

Rules is so generalized that the main task in implementing this on your site is not by adding a special feature to rules but rather applying your imagination. Coincidentally, that's the part I like most about Drupal.

• Bumping users in and out of a role (and providing proper notifications so they know what's going on) is one way, but I agree that that's quite a bit of work.

• Letting them create the node, but only publishing it if they have enough points is another option. This gave me the idea to create this issue: #400374: Rules condition "User has at least X userpoints".

The current userpoints_rules.module has a userpoints_action_grant_points function, but I'm not sure if that can award negative points. If you could check into that, that might help in exploring this further.

Best of luck!

New opinion: if you just want to put a true/false next to a user for a certain permission, then use a non-global Flag. It's not all that different from roles or userpoints, but it's simple true/false, and it's a really good API with really tight #298109: Rules integration.

You can't prevent a node creation with Rules, but you can create a rule that will delete a newly created node.

Sorry, this seems like a silly bump.

I can't find how to delete a newly created node - it isn't in the list of actions. I'm using the latest dev version. This wouldn't be due to the fact that my event is 'After saving new content' is it?

Thanks!

hm, I think there is no action for deleting nodes yet.

Are there any plans to have an action for deleting nodes / prevent the creation of a node?

I do not have any plans, but I'd add an action for deleting content. Just roll a patch.

Changing to feature request.

Taking over.

Patch is attached.

Minor issues:

+ * We cannot use node_delete() because it does access checks and ouput.

ouput -> output. Maybe worth adding @see node_delete()

+ * Action "Delete content" - Label callback

Label -> label.

Good idea, fixed.

thanks, committed. :)

This is in response to [amitaibu] above

Thats incorrect.

You can. Its really simple too.

Create rule of type "content is going to be saved"

Add condition "if content type is xxx"
And whatever other condition you require to return true or false.

Add action "system page redirect" and set configuration to redirect to the same page.
Set configuration of above action to "immediately issue redirect".
This will stop the process of node creation in its tracks and send the user back to the node creation page.

It is generally required that you issue an error notice to the user.
You can do this by adding a "set configurable system message" action BEFORE the page redirect action.

Hope this helps.