using other content type's fields

Posted by gdhia on October 10, 2012 at 1:41pm

Related to this post: http://drupal.org/node/1808608
I have created a Expert's content type.
within this content type, i have these fields:

First name (text)
Second name (text)
email address

Then, in the "Publications" content type, i try to use the "first name" and "second name" fields of the "Expert" content type as autocomplete filed in the "publication" form.

So, I added these two existing fields in the "publications" content type.
I wish to have a way that allows me to fill in the "First name", then I have a list of possibilities of the "Second name" depending on the contents entered on the "Expert" form.

Does any one know how to make this work ?

Thanks in advance

Comments

Why not use an entity

Posted by nevets on October 10, 2012 at 2:59pm

Why not use an entity reference field and reference the "expert" type from the "publication" type?

Thanks a lot

Posted by gdhia on October 10, 2012 at 4:33pm

You gave me a very good solution.

Thank you so much.
I added an entity reference field in the "publication" type that refers to the "expert" type and it functionned perfectly.

Now i can find "authors" names from the "experts" nodes. then, i'll try to link them published names either to them mail adresses, or to the selected expert page.

Then, I'll have to handle my first problem. lol this one.

Thanks again