Yes, you're right. I was being unrealistically optimistic stating that I was doing something vanilla, even more so because I am altering the field configuration form, though that is the rendering manipulation part, and it's really the pre-rendering part I've been having trouble with (i.e. getting my hands on the field). At first I looked at it as being vanilla, because it's simply a text field added to a content type. What you state so clearly below was actually somewhat of a leap for me. I mistakenly thought that CCK now being in core meant that a fielded entity field would be somehow more 'native' in terms of accessing it. Of course, that doesn't leave a whole lot of node fields that accept hold content that are NOT abstractions. Title may be the only one...even Body is now an entity field if I'm not mistaken. On 11/21/2010 01:47 AM, Earl Miles wrote:
To be fair, it's because what you're doing is trying to mess with CCK's handlers which are extra levels of abstraction.