I am creating a Content Type, let's just call it Article, that includes a field, Requests. Requests is a Text field with an unlimited number of entries allowed. The Article author will enter some number of Requests entries that are related to the Article. Later, I will create a Content Type, Reply, with multiple fields. I want for each user at large to be able to create a singular Reply node for each Requests entry. I intend to use Page Manager, Contextual Filters, and Rules to pull this off, but haven't figured out exactly how yet.
Question: Will I be able to relate a Reply node to a particular entry in the Requests field of an individual Article node or do I need to separate the Requests into a separate Content Type and create an Entity Reference back to the Article?
P.S. - I really don't understand how multiple entries for a single field are stored in the database. If I did, I could probably answer my own question, but for education's sake, any explanatory notes of what is going on in the database would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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Instead of Requests is a Text
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I would make requests an entity reference field that references a content type of "request". You could then use comments for replies. I would use Comment Limit to limit the number of comments/replies per node/request.
Thanks
Thank you for the prompt reply.
The problem is that I need to actually structure the Reply a bit. I need to have a Text field and an Integer field. The Replies also need to be specific to the individual requests rather than the whole article (I have not researched the idea of commenting to a field rather than a node). I like the looks of that module though; limiting comments was one of the questions on my list.
For my sandbox, until someone comes up with a reason not to, I think that I am going to make the requests a separate content type and use a field within to reference the article. Then I will make the replies a separate content type and use a field within to reference the particular request.
Note in my suggest each
Note in my suggest each request is unique (it's own node) so the comments would apply only to a single request. And in Drupal 7 you can add custom fields to comments on a per content type basis.
Might just work...
How do I add fields to the comments?
Visit Structure » Content
Visit Structure » Content types
For the content type in question click "Manage fields"
There should be a tab for "Content Fields" and another for "Content Display".
Great, thanks.
Thanks for the help.