I'd like to know how would one do the following using CCK group and fields:

Group:
- Education

Fields:
- School Name
- Location
- Certificate/Diploma
- Graduated

Now i'd like the user to be able to add the same group as many times as needed--so to allow posting multiple Education groups...

e.g. i want to put my High School info,
then I want to put my College Info for my certificate of arts,
then i want to put college info for my Bachelors of Science,
and info on my Masters Degree

Also, the same concept would apply for something like "Experience"

Group:
Experience

Fields:
Type of Job
Position Held
Start Date - End Date

I'd like the user to be able to add as many of the Experience groups as needed (on demand)

e.g. I want to add 3 job expriences:

Type of Job: Advertising Position held: Paper Boy Start Date: 02/2000 End Date: 07/2002
Type of Job: Fast food industry Position held: burger flipper Start Date: 02/2005 End Date: 02/2006
Type of Job: Investing Position held: Financial Advisor Start Date: 03/2006 End Date: none

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djorn’s picture

djorn commented
Title: How to? user wants to add additional groups (holding multiple fields) » Ability to take field group and allow "multiple values"
Component: General » fieldgroup.module

This is something I'd be very interested in as well, but for a different use case.

@duntuk: Currently you can't do this. Is there any particular reason you can't turn your group into a "content type"? You can then use views to list all the jobs (which would be a very powerful feature as you can then expose filters to sort through jobs by date, type, etc which field groups would not allow). Why would multiple job types need to be embedded into a single node? If you need the jobs to be connected to a particular node, you could checkout nodereference as well.

For my particular use case, I am using CCK and advancedprofile to create a fairly complex user profile. Advanced profile uses a content type containing all the fields to be displayed when viewing/editing a user's profile. We'd like to allow a user to enter an arbitrary number of methods to contact them. For example, they can select AIM, Jabber, facebookUID, etc from a drop-down menu and then enter the screenname/id into a text box next to the drop-down. We've grouped these two fields into one field group, but would like to allow the possibility of adding more screennames/ids. Would it be necessary to write a custom CCK module to allow this? I'd appreciate any guidance on this matter.

I'm sure you've considered this in the past, but it seems to me adding the ability to group fields together and allow multiple entries for that field group in a single node would be an extremely nice feature. I haven't been able to find much discussion about this topic on drupal.org or via google though.

Dj-Harem’s picture

Dj-Harem commented

Hi,

yeah i search this functionality and found this old post.
is there already a solution to realize that?

greetz
Dj-Harem

yched’s picture

yched commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

#119102: Combo field - group different fields into one