Drupal: using Rules, apply pathauto settings to node

Question

I need to use Rules to create a rule that updates the path for the currently saved node according to the settings pathauto uses. The conditions for the rule are content type and that one of several fields have been modified.

Answer 1

Pretty sure you can't use Rules to interact with Pathauto, but you can use Rules action: "Create or delete a content's URL alias" which basically does the same thing as pathauto (i.e., lets you use tokens to create paths).

So just create a new rule, add those filters to the IF (i.e., if content has type blahblah and (xxx field has been modified OR yyy field has been modified OR zzz field has been modified)), and use the "Create or delete a content's URL alias" action to change the alias, and you should be good.

Answer 2

Pathauto already automatically applies its settings. You don't need the rules module.