[development] Changing Input format for all instances of a field

Brian Vuyk brian at brianvuyk.com
Mon Sep 28 16:59:10 UTC 2009


Which CCK table would that be? It's not stored in the content_type_* or 
content_field_* tables. It may be in the serialized arrays in 
content_node_field or content_node_field_instance, but changing those 
didn't seem to have an effect.

Brian

larry at garfieldtech.com wrote:
> The input format is stored as an integer in the database.  You should 
> be able to just go to the appropriate CCK table in the database and 
> run an UPDATE query on it manually.  You'll then want to clear all 
> caches to make sure it takes effect.
>
> I do not know of any more automated method, but it's a simple process 
> in SQL.
>
> --Larry Garfield
>
> Brian Vuyk wrote:
>> Hello all!
>>
>> I need to change the input format for all instances of a certain CCK 
>> field. What is the best way to go about this? There are about 2,000 
>> nodes that need to be updated. What's the best way to do this?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>



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