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How can I set a taxonomy term reference field to two values using Rules? The "Number of values" for the field is already set to two.

I set up a workflow in rules that works for setting a single value. I tested this several times and encountered no problems. However, when I changed the "Number of values" for the field from "1" to "2" and then edited the action to add two terms instead of just one, I got the following error message:

  • Warning: Missing argument 2 for taxonomy_options_list() in taxonomy_options_list() (line 1375 of /srv/bindings/e87a1e62cfd24fea9dd67cfd074d146c/code/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module).
  • Warning: Missing argument 3 for taxonomy_options_list() in taxonomy_options_list() (line 1375 of /srv/bindings/e87a1e62cfd24fea9dd67cfd074d146c/code/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module).
  • Warning: Missing argument 4 for taxonomy_options_list() in taxonomy_options_list() (line 1375 of /srv/bindings/e87a1e62cfd24fea9dd67cfd074d146c/code/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module).

When I attempt to set a value by triggering the rule, it fails and the rules debug log has the following output:

  • 3.235 ms Unable to get a data value. Error: Invalid data value given. Be sure it matches the required data type and format.
  • 4.254 ms Unable to evaluate action data_set.

What is the correct way to assign two terms at once to a single taxonomy term reference field?

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  • Are you using the "Set a data value" action with a comma separated list of taxonomy term ids to set the value?
    – Clive ♦
    Jun 17, 2012 at 17:06
  • I am using the "Set a data value" action with "Direct input mode" to select two values from the select list of taxonomy terms.
    – Patrick Kenny
    Jun 17, 2012 at 22:26
  • Please, export your rule and show it here.
    – kalabro
    Jun 21, 2012 at 14:45

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As it turns out, this is actually fairly easy to do in Rules. By updating to the latest version of the Entity API (rc3-- I was stuck on rc1 due to a different bug that I resolved earlier today) with Rules 2.1, I was able to do this in the following way:

  1. Choose the action "Set a data value".

  2. Choose the taxonomy term reference field to set.

  3. Control-click to select the taxonomy terms to add.

That's all there is to it, but there is one potential gotcha: these values didn't always save correctly for me. This may be because I opened multiple tabs in Firefox and tried to save many different rules at once; for whatever reason, sometimes only one of the two values got saved. I fixed this by simply checking all the values again manually and re-saving them until the values stuck.

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Elaborating on @Patrick Kenny's step #3.

You may need to click the button "Switch to the direct input mode" button to reveal the terms available in your taxonomy field.enter image description here

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