How to create a Rule to create a new entity of type Comment and a body with tokens?

Question

Using drupal 7 and the Rules module, I'm trying to "create a new entity" of type comment. What it's strange, is that although all the other fields accept tokens, "the main body text" doesn't. Tokens are considered as simple text.

Anyone experienced this and know how to solve it?

Answer 1

Have a look at Comment # 10 of the Rules (support) issue titled "Access and Set Comment extra fields ". It includes a Rule example that looks like so:

{ "rules_test" : {
    "LABEL" : "Comment bot",
    "PLUGIN" : "reaction rule",
    "REQUIRES" : [ "rules" ],
    "ON" : [ "node_update" ],
    "IF" : [
      { "entity_has_field" : { "entity" : [ "node" ], "field" : "field_status" } }
    ],
    "DO" : [
      { "entity_create" : {
          "USING" : {
            "type" : "comment",
            "param_subject" : "zzz",
            "param_node" : [ "node" ],
            "param_author" : [ "node:author" ],
            "param_comment_body" : { "value" : {
                "value" : "This text will be replaced in the next action.",
                "format" : "filtered_html"
              }
            }
          },
          "PROVIDE" : { "entity_created" : { "new_comment" : "New comment" } }
        }
      },
      { "data_set" : {
          "data" : [ "new-comment:comment-body:value" ],
          "value" : [ "node:field-status" ]
        }
      }
   ]
  }
} 

The clue to solve your issue (= work around?) is to use that last Rules Action starting with "data_set".