[support] Entity Reference

[Steve Kessler]

The question if the values are dynamic or static. The other approach we
have used to fetch and store values when the node is created.

-Steve
On Jan 16, 2012 9:12 PM, "Vaibhav Jain" <in.vaibhavjain at gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe you should use form alter to change the content in the drop down
> provided by the entity api.
> make sure that the values for every option is same, as it would save the
> NID value in its tables.
> when you do node view as well, you can alter the values via nodeapi.
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:54 AM, DTH <david at hartster.org> wrote:
>
>> I may be doing this wrong but:
>>
>> In one of my content types, I want people to be able to select an
>> existing node, so I can use some of the data from the existing node of
>> content type "page".
>>
>> I've installed Entity Reference. This works great but for the fact
>> that I can only choose to show in a dropdown every page node,
>> which in this case means a dropdown with nearly a thousand options,
>> when really I want people to choose from a more limited section of
>> options (e.g. where field1 = foo and field2 = bar etc). Especially as
>> you can only see the Title of the node, which in some cases is
>> repeated in irrelevant nodes.
>>
>> I've looked at Entity Reference View Widget, which allows you to
>> create a View, but the output isn't ideal (e.g. it's not a dropdown,
>> but lists every filtered option with a checkbox, whereas I definitely
>> want people to only choose one option).
>>
>> Is there another module/better way/hook etc, which would allow me to
>> filter further the Entities in the dropdown, more than just by Content
>> Type?
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> Regards,
> Vaibhav Jain
>
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