It would be useful to be able to select as a dependant for a field collection item a field from the parent entity.

e.g. In a node you could show/hide a field collection item (not the whole field collection) based on a checkbox on the node.

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jamescl commented
Title: For Field collection item, select dependent from parent entity. » Add ability to have field component as dependent/dependee
Component: Compatibility w/ other modules » Code

Actually thinking about it, this should be the other way round and isn't necessarily about field collection, but about having the field child/component available as dependent/dependee

This could be end date or duration from date, a title or url from a link, a field collection item from a field collection or any component part of a field.

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dqd
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Issue summary: View changes
Status: Active » Closed (outdated)

Thanks for the report and all the efforts in here. But due to inactivity in this issue for some years and because of the upcoming EOL of Drupal 7, I will close this issue on the way by cleaning up the issue queue.

Feel free to re-open as "Needs review" if you found a solution or have a patch to be reported to help others on this outdated version.

If you think this issue or missing feature should be addressed in a newer Drupal core 8 and above compatible version of this project, then please file a new issue to the latest dev.

A hint for those coming here: in Drupal 8 and above we have extended manage display view mode displays a lot, which can be choosen in a reference. To achieve the requested of this issue you can set up 2 references of the same parent or related but with 2 different view mode displays where one has this field missing you want to hide. Now you can create a condition to show only one of both references. Viola.