Drupal - Triggers & Actions

In this chapter, we will learn about Triggers and Actions in Drupal. First let s look into Triggers.

It can be defined as changes happening within your site. The actions can be carried out either after creating a new content or any page.

Triggers

Following are the steps that will help you use triggers in Drupal.

Step 1 − First cpck Modules from the menu bar.

Step 2 − When you cpck Modules, you get the following page.

Here enable Trigger module. Then cpck Save Configuration at the bottom of the page.

Step 3 − Go back to the Trigger module and cpck Configure on the right side of the page as shown in the following image.

Step 4 − When you cpck Configure, you get the following page.

We have different tabs on the page that specify each trigger.

Comment Module − You can assign action to only those triggers relating to comment module.

Node Module − You can assign action to those triggers relating to Node module.

System Module − You can assign action to only those triggers relating to System module.

Taxonomy Module − You can trigger actions to the Taxonomy module.

User Module − At last we have the user module, here actions must be assigned in User module.

Actions

Tasks carried on a particular system object are called actions.

Step 1 − Cpck Configuration from the menu bar.

Step 2 − Cpck on Actions from the system section.

Step 3 − When you cpck Actions, you get the following page.

Step 4 − Select any one action from the dropdown and cpck Create.

Step 5 − When you choose an option and cpck Create, The following page appears.

Following are the option fields present on the page −

Label − Give a name to your action

Recipient − Enter your email address

Subject − Enter a subject you want to add to the action

Message − Enter the message you want to send to the visitor when cpcked on any action.

After filpng all the details, cpck Save.

Step(6) − You can see that your action is added to the pst.