The rules module allows site administrators to define conditionally executed actions based on occurring events (known as reactive or ECA rules). It's a replacement with more features for the trigger module in core and the successor of the Drupal 5 workflow-ng module.
Example use cases
- Build flexible content publishing workflows changes
- Send customized mails to notify your users about important
- Create custom redirections, system messages, breadcrumbs, ...
And many more...
Modules may use the rules module's API to provide new events, conditions, actions, rule sets as well as default rules, which can be customized by users. Check out the developer docs.
Features
- Obviously, you may use reaction rules to react upon any event with custom conditions and actions.
- Allows functionality to be re-used via components (Drupal 6: Rule sets only).
- Flexible scheduling system that allows scheduling any component / action.
- Users can share their customizations by using the built-in import/export feature. For that the module also integrates with Features.
- Modular input evaluation system - for example you can install the Token module and use it in every action.
- The module has been developed with site performance in mind, so it makes use of caching routines to speed up rule evaluation.
- Rules 2.x (Drupal 7 only) features improved APIs, a new admin UI, support for all entity types, parameter configuration via simple data selection (i.e. just pass
node:author as argument) and much more. See this blog post for more details.
Requirements
Drupal 6:
- To get token replacements in your actions, install the latest release(6.x-1.12 or later) of the Token module
Drupal 7:
Further resources
To get started have a look at the documentation. Before asking questions read the FAQ.
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发表于 4-8-2012 15:18
