How can I fetch the Inviter in Rules

Question

How can I fetch the Inviter of a user in Rules? I'm using Drupal 7 and the invite-by-email module (part of the invite module https://www.drupal.org/project/invite), to allow users to invite others. Now i need to create a Rule that grants points to Inviters whenever their Invitees vote on the site.The voting is controlled with the voting api module, which gives a Rules event. The event is User votes on a Node The Invitee is [vote:user] For the inviter I tried [vote:user:invite:inviter] but it didn't work. Been going around in circles, but just can't find the Inviter.

any help appreciated. d

Answer 1

As a workaround, i ended up using the views rules module at drupal.org/project/views_rules which "Provides Views directly as Rules actions and loops to seamlessly use view result data."

Answer 2

If you're trying to do something, please show your work so we don't have to guess what you've tried. The variables available to Rules depend on what events you're using, so leaving that part out of your description means we can only guess how to help you. A great way to communicate how you've configured your Rule is to post an export of the Rule you're writing and point out where you're having the problem.

That said, here is a very simple Rule which displays the name of the 'inviter' when a new invitation is created. You can import this and modify it for your specific needs. I used the Invite module from https://www.drupal.org/project/invite

{ "rules_test_invite" : {
    "LABEL" : "test invite",
    "PLUGIN" : "reaction rule",
    "OWNER" : "rules",
    "REQUIRES" : [ "rules", "invite" ],
    "ON" : { "invite_insert" : [] },
    "DO" : [ { "drupal_message" : { "message" : [ "invite:inviter:name" ] } } ]
  }
}