How to Flag a created entity via Rules

Posted by nonprofit on January 23, 2012 at 4:38am

Hi, Looking for help using Flag and Rules.

Once an even fires, I'd like a node to be created and for the created node to be flagged.

Currently:

 The rule properly creates the node.
 The flag can be manually toggled on the new node.

The rule does not flag the new node.

Initially I thought the data selector should be entity-created. I then attempted to fetch the entity [entity-created:type] and flag [entity-fetched:0]. Again, no love.

Any assistance on how to flag a created entity would be appreciated.

Comments

Node must be saved first

Posted by itangalo on January 23, 2012 at 6:37am

In order for this to work, you will need to have the new node properly saved before setting the flag. That is when the node gets its ID, and only then can flags be set (I assume).

To make this happen with Rules, you need (I think) a rule set – one of the components you can create. In that, first add a rule that creates the new node, and use the save entity action as well. Check the force immediate saving option, or Rules will try to be smart and wait with saving until the entire component has finished.

Then add another rule in the set, which sets the flag (also inside the rule set).

Good luck!
//Johan Falk
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