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

[Shai Gluskin]

Hi John,

Those links are really helpful --> definitely sending me in the right
direction.

I appreciate it.

Shai

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:21 AM, John Thomas
<drupal.org-2008 at jt-socal.com>wrote:

> Shai Gluskin 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.
>>
>
> Possibly helpful:
> http://drupal.org/project/autocreate
> http://drupal.org/project/inline_references
> http://drupal.org/project/popups_reference
> http://drupal.org/search/apachesolr_search/add%20reference
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> John Thomas
>
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