The Date Module is *very* useful for this. You can set it up to define its "granularity" (i.e. I use it for the same purpose and only define year and month.) You have lots of control over the display and input formats, and you can use the field for sorting or filtering.
I wish that I knew about this module from the start. :-)
The only problem is that since I specify that the display is "F Y" (i.e. November 2007), if I don't enter a month, it'll show up as "January." There may be a way to fix that, but it isn't high on my priority list yet.
Sharon
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From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Sarah.Vardy@student.griffith.edu.au Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:33 AM To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] CCK Common Fields
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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