Bulk changing field values via ECA VBO

Your use case doesn't require using the multiple at once event. Use "VBO: Execute Views bulk operation (one by one)" instead, this should enable you to directly access one entity at a time without the need for a loop. From there on, you should be able to access the main entity of the view row using the [entity] token, e.g. [entity:field_date:value] should be available.

Thank you for the quick tip! It's a working solution. A quick repro of how it works (for others, like me, searching):

1. Add VBO Execute views bulk op (one-by-one) event and the VBO access event (as per readme.md)
2. Load entity action: Load entity from type and ID (in my case commerce Product, ID is: [event:entity:id]) - assigned token name: product_entity
3. Entity Get field value action - field name: field_date - assigned token name: current_date_value - Entity: [product_entity] (as established above)
4. Field value is now available and I was able to tamper it according to my needs.

Thanks's again for the excellent support!

Great to hear that it works, thanks.

Thanks again. I have further tailored the script, here's what I found.

Load entity action is, indeed, not necessary. However:

1. If I choose the "Display a message to the user" action to display the value of the field_date field, the right token to be inserted in the Message section is [entity:field_date:value], as you suggested.
2. If I choose the "Get field value" action (or Set field value, for that matter), the token above did not work. I needed to insert only field_date in the Field name (without the brackets).
3. The ECA tamper (used for the Convert date to timestamp action) also uses the tokenized variant in its Data field[entity:field_date:value].

A bit confusing to follow when tokens should be used and when not, but it works, nonetheless.

Thank you for these excellent modules!

We're planning to improve that confusion when to just specify a token name only and when to use a token.

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