I'm getting ready to start a site that will center on three types of nodes that are in a hierarchy. The parent node will have lots of fields, the child node needs to inherit some of those fields, plus add some of its own. Then the grandchild inherits from the child.
I'm not seeing a lot of ways to handle this without a bunch of custom code. Does anyone have any ideas?
Yes, I have seen "Hierarchical Organization of Nodes" on GDO. It didn't address this need.
Nancy
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.
I've used http://drupal.org/project/relativity but it isn't ready for D7. It allows you to create a child node from the parent node or assign the hierarchy from existing nodes. But it doesn't do the inheritance. I found the following possibilities for it, I've not used any of them.
http://drupal.org/project/bundle_inherit http://drupal.org/project/field_inherit http://drupal.org/project/inheritedformatter
Earnie
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Ms. Nancy Wichmann nan_wich@bellsouth.net wrote:
I'm getting ready to start a site that will center on three types of nodes that are in a hierarchy. The parent node will have lots of fields, the child node needs to inherit some of those fields, plus add some of its own. Then the grandchild inherits from the child.
I'm not seeing a lot of ways to handle this without a bunch of custom code. Does anyone have any ideas?
Yes, I have seen "Hierarchical Organization of Nodes" on GDO. It didn't address this need.
Nancy Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.
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I don't fully understand the need, but if you're inheriting fields, why duplicate them? Why not use, like, Panels to take pieces of the parent node to display on the child node? Then, if you change it in one, it will change in the other.
Joel
-----Original Message----- From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Earnie Boyd Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 1:14 PM To: support@drupal.org; Ms. Nancy Wichmann Subject: Re: [support] Hierarchical relationship of nodes
I've used http://drupal.org/project/relativity but it isn't ready for D7. It allows you to create a child node from the parent node or assign the hierarchy from existing nodes. But it doesn't do the inheritance. I found the following possibilities for it, I've not used any of them.
http://drupal.org/project/bundle_inherit http://drupal.org/project/field_inherit http://drupal.org/project/inheritedformatter
Earnie
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Ms. Nancy Wichmann nan_wich@bellsouth.net wrote:
I'm getting ready to start a site that will center on three types of nodes that are in a hierarchy. The parent node will have lots of fields, the child node needs to inherit some of those fields, plus add some of its own. Then the grandchild inherits from the child.
I'm not seeing a lot of ways to handle this without a bunch of custom code. Does anyone have any ideas?
Yes, I have seen "Hierarchical Organization of Nodes" on GDO. It didn't address this need.
Nancy Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.
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-- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
That is a possibility. At the moment the customer is not sure if they want dynamic or point-in-time inheritance.
Nancy
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.
From: Joel Willers
I don't fully understand the need, but if you're inheriting fields, why duplicate them? Why not use, like, Panels to take pieces of the parent node to display on the child node? Then, if you change it in one, it will change in the other.
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