Video – Using Field Collection In Drupal 7

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1. 

   ibrahim

   April 16, 2013 at 5:30 pm

   hi, i wonder about joining. with your example we have authors and authors’ last names are belove first names. but i want to join firs name and last name side by side. how can do it? using form or field group?
   1. 

      ivan

      April 16, 2013 at 11:21 pm

      You can join fields in a few ways. First, look at the Custom Formatters module (http://drupal.org/project/custom_formatters). Use this module to join two fields and display as one.

      Another way is to use the Display Suite module (http://drupal.org/project/ds). Implement a “code field” and display the two fields together.
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   Traian

   May 15, 2013 at 10:56 pm

   Hello,

   Thank you for this tutorial. I wanted to ask you if you ever used entity reference and if there is a significant difference between field collection and entity reference?

   Traian
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      ivan

      May 15, 2013 at 11:19 pm

      Hi Traian,

      Field collection and entity reference are very different modules. And yes I do use entity reference a lot.

      Field Collection

      You would use field collection to group a bunch of fields together (simplest explanation). 🙂

      For example, let’s say you want to create an author field on an article content type where you’ll store a first and last name of the author.

      Article (Content type)
      - Title
      - Body
      - Author
      - - First name
      - - Last name
      

      You can use the field collection module to group first and last name field as a collection.

      Entity Reference

      The Entity Reference module allows you to create a field that references other entities like node, user or taxonomy term.

      Hope this helps.
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   lekkan

   July 24, 2013 at 10:07 pm

   How can i add Comment section for each Field-collection sections ?

   I have Step1, Step2,… etc.

   Now user want to add comment for any steps.

   Thanks in Advance.
   1. 

      ivan

      July 25, 2013 at 1:02 am

      If I understand you correctly, you want to display comments on specific “field collection” fields?

      The core comment module only works with nodes. Look at the Reply module (https://drupal.org/project/reply). I have never used the module, but it looks good.

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