This is not really possible without a node reference.  The node reference is the relationship, however once you've got that you can use views or a computed field to extract the value from the other node.

On 27/12/2010, at 11:03 PM, pavithra m wrote:

I want to do a field reference like what we do with node reference..
I have the PRODUCT CODE cck field in the PRODUCT DETAILS node .
I want this to be referenced from ORDERS node

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