Drupal 11: After configuring and testing some access policies for content entities (nodes) in the "Dynamic" mode I don't need one policy anymore. When I try to delete the policy I get the message:
> The access policy POLICY_NAME is being used, and cannot be deleted.
So the access policy can't be deleted before the policy has been removed from affected nodes.
I see the list of nodes the policy has been applied in a views display with views field 'Access policy'.
First I removed the access rules in the access policy and edited the selection rules so that this policy should be obsolete because it no longer matches for any node. Then I saved the affected nodes to get the policy removed. This method doesn't work, the policy is not removed after node update.
Do I have to change the Selection mode at /admin/people/access-policies/node/settings to "Manual" and remove the obsolete policy manually from each node? It seems so.
I expected that at each node update a policy should be removed when it doesn't match the conditions.
Aren't the selection rules checked at any node update?
Did I misunderstand the concept? Or is this a bug?
thanks for clarification.
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It will only change/remove the policy if it detects that there were field changes
Another approach would be to drag the old policy down to deprioritize it. Then when you save the the content it will be assigned to any applicable new policy. You could do this with bulk save as well.
Thanks, especially for the idea to deprioritize the nodes and make a bulk edit.