Use Rules to Unpublish content based on Author's role

Hi,

I've been hunting down a solution for a similar scenario as the original poster. Perhaps I missing something, but when creating a rule triggered on 'user account details have been updated' only the 'Execute a VBO programmatically on user' is available, not Execute VBO on node.

I'm not sure it's possible to create a rule that triggers on User object, and then acts on node objects. Any other thoughts here?

jwant

Hi,

Ok, I'll try that. I found the following screencast to be helpful: http://nodeone.se/blogg/nodeone-talks-drupal-rules-vbo-revisited.

Using the example from the screencast, I used 'return array($object->uid);' as the argument to pass to a vbo that uses the UID as an argument to selected the user's authored nodes. It worked! It called the vbo and then executed the selected vbo action.

However, the selected vbo action is a rule set with a rule action to 'modify node taxonomy terms', but it does not change the nodes' taxonomy terms.

I've tried configuring the rule action 'modify node taxonomy terms' to 'Replace terms within same vocabulary', and selecting the desired term within the specific vocabulary, but this does not change the node's taxonomy term. My rule set is only using content as an argument. Do I need to use taxonomy term or taxonomy vocabulary as rule set arguments?

I can successfully change a node's taxonomy term by using the default VBO action 'modify node taxonomy terms', so I feel I have an issue with my rule set. I'm also using TAC module, and perhaps this is affecting the execution of the rule action. How are rule actions executed, as Admin, Anonymous or as the user role of the acting user? I'm currently executing the rule set and action as Admin (UID = 1). I disabled TAC module, but the taxonomy term still not change.

I've found the following issues that discuss the problems with changing a nodes taxonomy terms via rules. Any help would be appreciated. Also, let me know if I need to move this to an issue queue, Rules, VBO or otherwise. Thanks, jwant.

http://drupal.org/node/887982 - Seems to point to a known issue, "Modify node taxonomy terms failing when action is triggered via a rule"

http://drupal.org/node/917476 - An old issue, which does not seem relevant now that there is a action to to 'modify node taxonomy terms'.
http://drupal.org/node/895310 - An old issue too, but perhaps this is the method I need to follow....it seems like work-around.

I have the same issue. I made a view for VBO and a component in rules which loads the VBO and set the nodes to unpublished. This worked when I execute the component manually. But I didn't get the conditions right. I have this rule:
{ "rules_premiuminhalte_ausblenden" : {
"LABEL" : "Bei Rollenwechsel Premiuminhalte ausblenden",
"PLUGIN" : "reaction rule",
"REQUIRES" : [ "rules" ],
"ON" : [ "user_update" ],
"IF" : [
{ "data_is" : {
"data" : [ "account-unchanged:roles" ],
"value" : { "value" : { "7" : "7" } }
}
},
{ "data_is" : { "data" : [ "account:roles" ], "value" : { "value" : { "4" : "4" } } } }
],
"DO" : [
{ "component_rules_premiuminhalte_unveroeffentlicht" : { "account" : [ "account" ] } }
]
}
}

I check for the unchanged role which should be "Musiker Premium" and the changed role which should be "Musiker Basis". But everytime I switch the role I get the debugmessage:

0 ms Reacting on event Nach der Aktualisierung eines bestehenden Benutzerkontos.
6.031 ms Evaluating rule Bei Rollenwechsel Premiuminhalte ausblenden.
7.468 ms The condition data_is evaluated to FALSE
7.477 ms AND evaluated to FALSE.
7.492 ms Finished reacting on event Nach der Aktualisierung eines bestehenden Benutzerkontos.

So there must be something wrong, but I don't understand it...

Hi,

Glad to hear you found a solution.

Ultimately, we used the execute custom php action to change the taxonomy terms of the node.

jwant

Just found this thread. For a slightly different approach, you might also be interested in Role Watchdog to react on event System log entry is created.