No VBO field in Views [#1282486]

I created a View type based on a simple/flat table (non-entity) by implementing hook_views_data(). That table is a base table.

I want to implement some VBO actions against this table. I used hook_action_info() and created some actions (with 'type' => 'system'). The problem is that when creating a View based on this new data source, I cannot see the VBO filed in the field list.

Is there something special that I need to implement in order to have VBO field/column available?

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Comment #1

bojanz CreditAttribution: bojanz commented 17 September 2011 at 16:09

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» Fixed

As I said on IRC, and as is written in the README, VBO only supports entity (base or revision) tables.
Implement hook_entity_info() and make your table an entity.
Use EntityAPIController so that you don't need to write other boilerplate functions.

Comment #2

claudiu.cristea

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Arad 🇷🇴

CreditAttribution: claudiu.cristea commented 17 September 2011 at 17:44

Thank you. I used hook_entity_info() to wrap around the Drupal "queue" system table. I built a new module Views Queue that exposes SystemQueue in Views and allows performing some simple VBO operations against the queue.