Help: create a rule that demotes nodes of a view from front page

Posted by elvin - albania... on November 21, 2013 at 1:53am

I have this usecase that i need to implement.

I need to have only 5 nodes promoted to the front page at all times.

I have a view that lists all the nodes that are promoted to the front page WITH AN OFFSET OF 5.
This view gives me the rest of the nodes that i now manually demote from the front page.

i need to create a rule that every time i promote a node to the front page, it automatically removes all other nodes from the front page with an offset of 5.

So when i promote a new node to the front page, the sixth node that is promoted, should automatically be demoted from the front page.

Thanks

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Just off the top of my head

Posted by tripper54 on November 21, 2013 at 4:59am

Just off the top of my head without actually trying this:

Create a nodes view, filter for 'promoted to front page' , pager set to show all items with an offset of 5.
Add a views bulk operations field to the view.
create a rules action set. add action 'load a list of entity objects from views bulk operation. select the view you created above.
add a loop to loop through the list.
add an action, 'remove node from front page' to the loop.
add a rule, set condition 'when a node is promoted to front page' , set action to the action set you just created.

Should work, let me know how you go.

THANKS A LOT i managed to

Posted by elvin - albania... on November 21, 2013 at 10:55am

THANKS A LOT

i managed to find the solution by following your steps and this tutorial: http://drupalize.me/videos/using-vbo-load-list-objects-rules

the issue was that i needed to add VBO to the master page, and then after that everything went smoothly.

take care

Help: create a rule that demotes nodes of a view from front page

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THANKS A LOT i managed to

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