Thanks for the help. It turns out that after getting some sleep, setting field values in hook_nodeapi(), $op='prepare' works fine. I have no idea what I was looking at. On 2/19/06, eric Farris <eafarris@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/19/06, eric Farris <eafarris@gmail.com> wrote:
I submitted a patch (http://drupal.org/node/27155) to prefill the entire $node object, but with the forms api it was decided that it would be better to manipulate the $form array rather than $node. There is a rest.module, existing solely as a proof-of-concept, that does this using hook_form_alter.
whoops. Should have mentioned that the rest.module I'm speaking of is in my sandbox:
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/eafarris/rest/
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