I was pleasantly surprised to see that the options for cck nodereference fields were all of a sudden expanded from selecting between content types to include slecting between nodes in a view, days after installing Views.

The first thing I did is to sort the nodes by date, so that the most recent nodes would be on top. Then I wondered, is it possible to use the exposed filters in the nodereference field? So that if the list of referencable nodes is very long, one could let the enduser narrow down the listing to the year they want, for example?

I tried a few things, but I couldn't figure out whether I was missing something obvious, or whether this is actually a feature request.

Thanks

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yched’s picture

yched commented
Project: Views (for Drupal 7) » Content Construction Kit (CCK)
Version: 5.x-1.4-2rc1 » 5.x-1.x-dev
Component: User interface » nodereference.module
Category: support » feature

This is for CCK's nodereference rather than Views.

Actually this idea was raised previously in the thread that added the "views selection" feature :
see http://drupal.org/node/78825#comment-134881
In short : good idea, but probably rather complicated...

I think mfredrickson has made some very promising work in this area, but I had no time so far to actually try it or see how this could be integrated with nodereference widgets

kdebaas’s picture

kdebaas commented

Ok Thanks, will closely follow the other thread...

mfredrickson’s picture

mfredrickson commented
Assigned: Unassigned » mfredrickson

I'm assigning this to me, so I remember to update it when progress is made on the views side of things.

I have a widget for node reference fields that uses the form element from the link above. This will be a reminder to submit it when the views patches hit.

dww’s picture

dww
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This would be great -- I was just looking for this functionality.

kdebaas’s picture

kdebaas commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Cleaning up my outdated issues. No time to check if this was ever resolved. Open a new one if you need to.

dww’s picture

dww
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Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

This was never implemented. Just because it's old and you submitted it doesn't mean this should be closed and duplicate issues created. ;)

bls20’s picture

bls20 commented

I really need this functionality as well, is it still currently not possible?

karens’s picture

karens commented
Assigned: mfredrickson » Unassigned
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Too old now, way past the time when we will add features to D5 version.