[support] Node Reference Functionality to Create New Node When Referenced Node Doesn't Exist

[Shai Gluskin]

Hi Usamah,

I don't think you get my use-case....

The "Authors" are not people who are Drupal users, such as... Karl Marx or
Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama etc. So I certainly don't want to use user
reference for this.

Shai



On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Usamah M. Ali <usamah1228 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello Shai,
>
> Your approach seems rather complicated, but you might have good reasons for
> that.
>
> The straightforward way to do this in Drupal with Views is to create a
> "user reference" to that user's account. If you're using a whole new content
> type for authors in order to leverage the goodies of CCK, then the Drupal
> core module "Profile" provides similar powerful custom fields to choose from
> and apply to your user's accounts and profile pages. It's disbaled by
> default and you have to enable it first through the modules page in the
> admin area.
>
> Regards,
> Usamah
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com>wrote:
>
>> Before I submit a feature request on the overworked Views issue queue --
>> please tell me there is a helper module that already does this OR some kind
>> of solution for this problem:
>>
>> Drupal setup: D6 with latest versions of cck and views.
>>
>> Content type 1: Books
>> Content type 2: Authors
>>
>> "Books" has a "node reference" field to "Authors"
>>
>> *Problem*: in order to successfully complete the form: node/add/books the
>> author of the book you are adding most already have a record previously
>> entered at node/add/authors.
>> *Desired functionality*: When you type in the name of the author to the
>> autocomplete field and then click submit, instead of getting an error,
>> "Author: found no valid post with that title", Drupal would go ahead and
>> create that new node with John Steinbeck as its title. Obviously, the the
>> Authors content-type couldn't have any required fields other than title.
>> Drupal could assign the author to be the logged in user.
>>
>> I'm hoping someone is going to tell me that there is a module for this or
>> that Views2 can even do it already and that I just missed the settings.
>>
>> Can triggers and actions do this, maybe?
>>
>> It's a huge UI problem to tell the user to create two nodes in a
>> particular order when they just want to do one thing.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Shai
>>
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