I'm a Drupal themer and not a developer, but I've never had such a hard time figuring out how to use a module. I can't find any documentation and or tutorial on Flexifield. The project page description is not very clear to me either (or perhaps I'm just not using the entire 5% of my brain today).. =) Anyway... I've been hitting this wall for 6 hours now and would really appreciate some advice or direction.

Here is what I'm trying to do:

I have 3 content types: Client, Location, Job.
Each Client has multiple Locations and each Location has multiple Jobs.
The goal is: when a new Job is being created, there needs to be a selection box with the list of Clients to choose from (I'm using Node reference for that), and when the Client is selected, the next selection box would show the list of Locations for this Client only.

Of course this is where I'm getting stuck... I already went through tons of threads on Conditional fields, Multigroup, Nodereferrer, etc... and unfortunately I still can't figure out which one (or ones) is right for me. Has anyone ever solved a similar puzzle before? Is Flexifield the right tool for this?

Thanks in advance!

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MBroberg commented

Have you looked at http://drupal.org/project/hs_nodereference? I tried it, but for my case I needed to create too many nodes to make it practical.
If Client and Location and Job are all content types, you should be able to use a hierarchical node reference to limit your list. (read the ReadMe file very carefully for setup instructions to get an idea of how it is useful)

I use http://drupal.org/project/hierarchical_select for taxonomy terms and it works really well.

I believe I will use this Flexifield module for my project though, because I need to select an item that is a combination of 3 fields, which are not necessarily the same kind of field, and not all are node reference fields.