[support] "Editable Fields"

[Metzler, David]

Ok, well then the way you’ve asked the question belies that maybe you haven’t done due diligence in researching custom module development in drupal?   I would recommend starting with Drupal Pro Development or some such tome.  It is always difficult to gage someone’s development experience from a mailing list, but the way you ask the question:

“How does drupal treat display fields differently than form fields”

doesn’t seem like a relavent question to developing a custom module.  Perhaps I’m in error here and I don’t understand the question you’re asking?  As you know you can load nodes and save nodes with the appropriate function calls.  You can make custom forms that display lists of taxonomy terms in a drupal form.  I guess you’re asking how to write a custom module?  Or are you asking how get a list of taxonomy terms?   Or are you asking how to update a node programmatically?

If you have started development down this road and understand custom module development, perhaps you could post more specifics about the problems you’re having?


From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Chris Miller
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 4:46 PM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] "Editable Fields"

From: "David Metzler" <metzlerd at evergreen.edu<mailto:metzlerd at evergreen.edu>>
To: "support at drupal.org<mailto:support at drupal.org>" <support at drupal.org<mailto:support at drupal.org>>
Sent: Monday, December 9, 2013 10:20:08 AM
Subject: Re: [support] "Editable Fields"

The only real way to do this is to write code.
Yes.  I thought I indicated that I also believed that this is a coding exercise with my reference to "node_load()".  That I will have to write code is undisputed; what I will have to write is still very much an open question that begs clarification.



There may be some capability for this in Views Bulk Operations project.  There’s a relavent stack exchange answer:

http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/10861/taxonomy-bulk-edit-in-drupal-7
I've been to VBO and it doesn't seem to do what I need.  It seems to be a two step process -- select the rows of interest, then set the taxonomy; there isn't apparently a more gentle modification.  I also looked at Editable Views and found that I couldn't even get an editable view, which is either my incompetence or misfortune to try to use a field that is not supported.



So the core issue is how Drupal treats display fields differently from "form" fields, and where I can find some explanations.  We know that I could put this taxonomy field on a content-type and I would get editable values on page creation and page modification, so what calls are made to accomplish this, and where can I read about it?

Thanks for the help,

Chris.
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