HI, i am thinking about using this module or referenes dialog (http://drupal.org/project/references_dialog) in a project. Could you tell me, what is the difference between these modules?

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jygastaud’s picture

Hi,

I made a really quick try of the module References dialog, so I'm maybe wrong but,

1. References dialog looks a bit more complex to setup than Entityconnect.
Fact is Entityconnect is a "plug & play" module and functionnality will be add for every field.
References dialog should be settup for each field. If you start a project or your project has few entity references fields so it's easy else ...

2. References dialog looks to have a search function that Entityconnect doesn't have.

3. Entityconnect works with all core entities (except Comments at the moment) and all default widgets (autocomplete, autocomplete tag, select list and checkbox) provided by Entity References with single or multiple values.

It looks like References dialog is available only with autocomplete widget.
I also saw an issue that tell that References dialog works only with single value but I didn't try it.

4. Finally it is also 2 ways to display the add or edit form. References dialog open an modal frame where we cache the original form and follow something which looks "classic creation process" then put back the user on the original form with is field completed.
These way has the advantage that the user can have multi references to create (eg I create a node which need an other node to be references which also need a node that not exist ...) without any issue.
I don't know any modal frame over modal frame over modal frame will look?!

So I thought both module look good, feel free to comments my return and tell me what's your final choice ;)

manuelBS’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Thanks for your fast answer! Now I have a pretty good idea about what your module does in difference to references dialog! Good work!

nithinkolekar’s picture

Component: Code » Documentation
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changing to documentation as it more suites to it.