Can anyone tell me how to set up metadata fields with cck in the first place?

 

I want to set a year and a month metadata field for a custom content type called News article.

 

Any help would be great.

 

Sarah =)

----- Original Message -----
From: Shyamala <shyamala@netlinkindia.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 4:22 pm
Subject: Re: [support] CCK Common Fields
To: support@drupal.org

> You can predefine the  date_created, date_modified,
> user_created,
> user_modified, url
> values for both content type, use, computed field, or pass
> values to the
> create form to populate these fields.
>
> These are possibilities. If you could elaborate on the when the
> two content
> types are created and how they are linked. What is the order of
> creation...
> I could help.
>
> Shyamala
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Holmes Jr." <tom@tomholmes.net>
> To: <support@drupal.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:27 AM
> Subject: [support] CCK Common Fields
>
>
> > I'm looking to implement Drupal 5.3 and I'm going to be using
> the CCK to
> > create some different content types.
> >
> > Two or more of my content types will have the same metadata
> field names
> > and types:
> > for example: date_created, date_modified, user_created,
> user_modified, url
> >
> > Is there a way I can set this up so that my content types will
> ALWAYS> get these shared fields ...
> > or do I just have to setup those fields seperately with each content
> > type I create?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >                          Tom
> >
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