Video – Using Field Collection In Drupal 7

6 comments

• 

  ibrahim

  13 years ago

  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?

  • 

    A

    ivan

    13 years ago

    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.

• 

  Traian

  13 years ago

  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

  • 

    A

    ivan

    13 years ago

    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.

• 

  lekkan

  13 years ago

  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.

  • 

    A

    ivan

    13 years ago

    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.

Comments are closed.