Computed Field code snippets

I have a computed field that is working in the sense of it displays initially correctly. But then I can change the value it is supposed to display, and it seems like it is cached, it does not update on a new viewing of the node. I am not using the database stored version. Using Drupal 6.20, can computed_field 6.x-1.0-beta3

I installed the cacheexclude module to keep the node pages in question from being cached, did not help.

I can clear caches and then it shows the correct value in the computed field.

Now, if I add the same code essentially for computing the field to my php input enabled body field, the php is correctly executed on each node view.

so bug with computed filed beta3? but cannot upgrade to beta4 as it prevents addition of new nodes?

I have a tree of nodes of type "Assembly", linked by noderefs:

Parent Assembly (noderef-->) Child Assembly

The Assembly type has a Computed Field which depends on content in any children. When I edit a child and click save, my PHP snippet also calls node_save(parent_nid) on each parent assembly that it discovers (by searching all Assembly nodes for its noderef).

I can see that node_save(parent_nid) is executing the parent node's Computed Field PHP code, but for some reason that Computed Field is not stored. However, when I visit the parent node's page, click edit, then immediately click save (without changing anything), the Computed Field is properly stored.

What do I need to call from the child's PHP (instead of or in addition to node_save(parent_nid)) to ensure that the parent's Computed Field is stored?

Hi,

Does anyone know how to do something like this with a php snippet:

if role = x

then print [some_other_field]

else print "user does not have this role!"

Any help much appreciated,

Thanks,
Joe

Hello

I have on my website a node type in which the user can enter the date of a monday, e.g. 4/4/2011. The node then refers to "the week of 4/4/2011", with fields refering to monday, tuesday, etc... Now how can I add a field to this node type that automaticly saves the date of the other six days of the week to six other fields?

So when I have a field "field_datemonday", how I can create a computed field "field_datetuesday" that equals datemonday +1 day, a computed field "field_datewednesday" that equal datemonday + 2 days, etc...?

I would really appreciate the help! Thanks!

We had a situation where we needed to fill three different reference node CCK fields. The city and county fields were being filled by geo location from openlayer module CCK wkt field type. The nearest city is a manual entry used by the editor of the node. Our situation is that the nearest city and the geo location's city could be the same or they could be different.

We wanted, if they were the same, that the reference would not be duplicated. So if they are the same we just set the node reference for one CCK field to NULL. Of course it might be obvious that we used three field entries that were not node references. The code below uses those three fields and some data base query to locate and provide the values in the reference fields.

We put the code into the Computed Code: field. Nothing is stored from this field directly to the database and the Display Format: We determined that the fields update when the record is merely viewed but the values were not saved. The event of editing the node also did not update the database and did not show the values in the node references. The final event of saving the node did update the database and made the entries more permanent.

Hope that this helps those of you who might need some additional ideas in this area. Thanks to your help - b.coleman (Drupal user name)

Hi all, I'm trying to retrieve a list of plain text strings from a node's field_tags using Computed Field.

I tried,

Can anyone explain to me what I should write in Computed Field to extract this exact string (i.e. "fruits")?

I am trying to get the sum of a field of all nodes for a specific user. Here is the scenario:

Node has a field called "commission" and I am trying to build a view that will calculate the sum of the commission field in all nodes of a specific user. I am using Views Calc and Computed Field. Views calc will only give a sum of all the commissions in all nodes, showing each node on a line. What I want is to show the sum of each user on each line. So rather than showing every node and it's associated user, I want to show one user on each line, with a sum of all the commissions of all nodes for that user.

Sorry if my description is confusing... Please reply if you have a solution, this problem has halted my project!

Hi all,

I am using computed fields with Drupal 7, and have several computed fields dependent to the previous field. For example :

1) the input field
2) computed_filed_1
3) computed_filed_2

And the value of computed_filed_1 is generated from input_field, which work well.
But I have to compute the computed_filed_2 from computed_filed_1.

If I don't get the instruction wrong, the computed field module couldn't do that. This is quite useful and might be common need to most people. Can anyone give me a hint? So far I can think of methods as follows:

1) declare the computed_field_1 and leave it blank, then update computed_filed_1 and computed_filed_2 in the implementation of computed_filed_2. In this way we would actually calculate once. I tried, but it seemed that it is not possible to update other field in this way.
2) force a recalculate after saving the post. but no idea how to do it.

Thanks in advance.

I am using computed fields on a content type. I want to check the user profile to generate the value for the computed field. But I can't find a way to pull the user profile at this point. I am using
Drupal 7
Computed Field
profile 2
Address field

Any thought would be appreciated?

I saw the age calculation code, but it seemed that the birthday data is saved in a field within the same content type, different from my case.

Hi I am looking for someone with experience with this module to write a custom script for a website I am working on.
Fairly straight forward I think.
It is for a manufacturer of storage shelving and will have a few drop down boxes for set height and width measurements then five other fields for entering options all of which have an affect on the final quote figure. The various figures that the module uses to calculate the quote will need to be drawn from CCK fields so the client can update those figures as they change.
I have an excel doc with all the formulas in it for you to help with the quote but will send that after contact is made.
Please send an email to me if you are interested. andrew@creativeconcepts.com.au

I am new to Drupal, so please excuse my ignorance.

I have a computed that consists of education information about an individual. The line I am having trouble with consists of the degree achieved as well as the month and year that the degree was completed. This is what I am aiming for:

Bachelor of Science in Marketing; September 2010

I have set the input settings so that it only asks for the month and year, however, when the computed field is displayed, it is displaying the full date:

Bachelor of Science in Marketing; 2010-09-01 00:00:00

I have figured out how to display the date the way I want on its own, but I have been trying on and off for a couple of days now to format it properly in a computed field with no luck. Is there a way for format the date?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am using the following code to insert a view aggregated SUM value in to a computed field
code:
$view_result = views_get_view_result('erp_exp_view');
$total=0;
drupal_set_message(serialize($view_result));
foreach($view_result as $item){
$node =node_load($item->nid);
$total=$item->nid;
}
$entity_field[0]['value'] ="$total";

i am getting the following message and error:
Drupal message:"field_field_exp_duration";a:1:{i:0;a:2:{s:8:"rendered";a:2:{s:7:"#markup";s:1:"5";s:7:"#access";b:1;}s:3:"raw";a:1:{s:5:"value";s:1:"5";}}}}}

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$nid in eval() (line 5 of E:\wamp\www\sites\all\modules\computed_field\computed_field.module(439) : eval()'d code).
can some one correct this please I wanted the $total value " 5"

When I put in something like this:
$display_output = "<b>Hello</b>";
I want the output to be,
Hello
but instead it comes out as,
<b>Hello</b>
I'm sure it's something very simple, what am I doing wrong?

I am looking for someone who can write what I need to achieve the following:

One content type with a "Total Quantity" field and multiple node references to a second content type.

A second content type with a reverse node reference back to the first content type as well as a field for sub total quantity.

I would like the "Total Quantity" to calculate the values from the sub total fields of all the second content posts which have node relationships to the first.

Anyone able to help me with this?

Drupal 7 HELP PLEASE!!!

I have a couple custom user fields (department and phone) which are mapped to the LDAP module. This is working properly.

I have a custom content type that has a contact field which is a user reference field. This is working correctly.

Now, I want to create a couple calculated fields (department and phone) in this custom content type. I want these fields filled in with the department and phone of the user of the user reference field.

Solution-
edit computed field and in the computed code section:

Hello,

I'm not sure whether this module can do this, so I figured I'd ask. I have a few fairly simply calculations which are adding and/or multiplying decimal fields to display a total amount on the page. Those decimal fields will be updated fairly often (probably weekly, but possibly daily), thus updating the calculated field on the live site.

I'd like for each of those updates to be available via reporting (probably via Views) so that we can have an audit trail of what was updated, when, and what the update was.

Is this possible with this module?

Thanks!

Hello i just wanted to as if can i count the number of times that a product is addet in cart or sold ?

Hey.

Does someone know how to get the ubercart product price, and make the computed field calculate 25% tax on.

Views can only sort prices without tax, because the price with tax is not stored on the database.
So i want the view to sort via the computed field.

I have a specific calculation that works in a Global PHP field in a view, and I need it to be "translated" so that it works with a Computed Field CCK field. Here is the code... can anyone shed some light on how to make it work in a Computed Field?

Its purpose is to add up a bunch of utilization entity fields (total cycles used) and then add that to the total number of cycles that the engine had on it when it was acquired.

Thanks!