Add "Use token" option to drop-down lists

jurgenhaas → credited lostcarpark → .

This has also been discussed at https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C0287U62CSG/p1708437647447219:

James Shields
  23 hours ago
Something that would be really amazing would be the ability to build configurable components in ECA, and then be able to use them in further ECA models. For example, I'm working on a number of models that email different groups of users. It would be amazing if I could build a component in ECA that called a view, and emailed the users selected. It would need to allow tokens to be passed in for the view, or possibly the contextual filter, and the message contents, but once built that could be used across multiple models.




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jurgenhaas
  23 hours ago
Yep, we've done that. Not for emails, but for log message handling. The idea is still the same, though.
You can build your generic "Send email model" that contains a custom event.
All your other models trigger that custom event with all the necessary arguments (=tokens), and then your generic model does all the magic about sending emails.


James Shields
  23 hours ago
Oh, that could work. I'm already triggering a custom event to send my emails. It didn't occur to me that the custom event handler doesn't have to be in the same model.


James Shields
  23 hours ago
Can you use a token to select the name of the view a model calls?


jurgenhaas
  23 hours ago
Aah, that's a good point. No, we currently can't since that config field is a select field (drop-down). But we're currently working on an issue where the language selector could do with token support as well and we're doing it there with a select list option called "Use token", and then the plugin uses a pre-defined token name for that. We should probably add something similar to all config fields that come with drop-downs.

This sounds like an awesome feature!

We've now implemented a generic method to support tokens in drop down fields over at ✨ Allow tokens in "Entity: create new" for langcode Needs work with language codes.

This is now adopted to the views query action plugin as well and can be tested in the 2.0.x-dev release.

There are 36 plugins altogether that we can improve with this new feature:

web/modules/contrib/eca/modules/access/src/Plugin/Action
- SetAccessResult.php
web/modules/contrib/eca/modules/base/src/Plugin/Action
- SetEcaLogLevel.php
- Translate.php
web/modules/contrib/eca/modules/base/src/Plugin/ECA/Condition
- ListContains.php
web/modules/contrib/eca/modules/cache/src/Plugin/Action
- CacheActionBase.php
web/modules/contrib/eca/modules/content/src/Plugin/Action
- FieldUpdateActionBase.php
- NewEntity.php
web/modules/contrib/eca/modules/content/src/Plugin/ECA/Condition
- EntityFieldIsAccessible.php
- EntityIsAccessible.php
- EntityTypeAndBundle.php
web/modules/contrib/eca/modules/content/src/Service
- EntityLoader.php
web/modules/contrib/eca/modules/endpoint/src/Plugin/Action
- SetAjaxResponseMessageCommand.php
- SetAjaxResponseOpenOffCanvasDialogCommand.php
web/modules/contrib/eca/modules/file/src/Plugin/Action
- FileRename.php
web/modules/contrib/eca/modules/form/src/Plugin/Action
- FormAddFieldActionBase.php
- FormAddSubmitButton.php
- FormSetMethod.php
web/modules/contrib/eca/modules/log/src/Plugin/Action
- LogMessage.php
web/modules/contrib/eca/modules/miscellaneous/src/Plugin
- RouteTrait.php
web/modules/contrib/eca/modules/queue/src/Plugin/Action
- EnqueueTaskDelayed.php
web/modules/contrib/eca/modules/render/src/Plugin/Action
- Cacheability.php
- GetFileContents.php
- Link.php
- RenderElementActionBase.php
- Serialize.php
- Text.php
- Unserialize.php
- Views.php
web/modules/contrib/eca/modules/ui/src/Form
- Settings.php
web/modules/contrib/eca/modules/user/src/Plugin/ECA/Condition
- CurrentUserPermission.php
- CurrentUserRole.php
web/modules/contrib/eca/modules/views/src/Plugin/Action
- ViewsQuery.php
web/modules/contrib/eca/modules/workflow/src/Plugin/Action
- WorkflowTransition.php
web/modules/contrib/eca/src/Plugin/Action
- ListAddBase.php
- ListRemoveBase.php
web/modules/contrib/eca/src/Plugin/ECA/Condition
- StringComparisonBase.php

All drop-down config fields in ECA now support tokens. See also the CR at https://www.drupal.org/node/3447358 → which is relevant for module maintainers who probably want to update their plugins accordingly.

Brilliant! I will have to try out the 2.x branch soon.

Thanks for this feature.

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