Targeting CCK in 6 not working

Check out this issue: http://drupal.org/node/247399

I started with this, and having difficulty with this method also. This what I'm trying:

&edit[field_interview_link][0][node_name]=test

I'm going to switch back to active because the [node_name] solution doesn't seem to work with 6.x. Maybe something to do with the fields being rearrangeable.

Marking #270116: cannot populate cck fields as a duplicate of this. Looks like CCK changes for 6 are making this wonky.

I fixed CCK in D6 using the following patch. Not sure if this does something bad, as I really don't know how forms in D6 are handled. But var_dump() helped me finding the problem and it works for me now.

Thanks for the patch. I won't get a chance to look at this for a week or so but I'm marking it needs review and hopefully others can take it for a spin.

Perhaps I should describe what the problem was, so you don't have to find out yourself...:

I use the Prepopulate-module to fill nodereferences with initial data (other cck-fields may behave different). Within _prepopulate_get_walk() the module tries to find the last entry in $form according to the array given in $_GET. It seems like things have changed here, at least nodereference stores an array inside $field['#default_value']. So the array needs to be set right. Walking the $form-array fails, because it only tries to use the last element as a default value. Instead with the patch I checked if $form has an #default_value-item and set it using array_merge(), so the whole array gets copied into the form. I don't know if replacing the array instead of doing array_merge() would be better or if there is some better way to figure out that #default_value needs to be set (or further walking is needed). Like said before, I don't know much about drupal forms, but the patch just worked...so I thought it might be worth sharing. ;-)

Sorry, somehow the status of the ticket got changed...

On Drupal 6.3 this module works only with [title]. Body and CCK fields cannot be changed. #5 patch is ineffective on my installation.

Drupal: 6.3, CCK: 6.x-2.0-rc4

Well, It works only under some conditions.

Following tests run on a 6.x-2.x-dev (2008-Jun-24) patched with #5.

1. [taxonomy][1]=3
   
   <?php
<option value="2">A</option>
<option value="3">AB</option>
<option value="4">B</option>
<option value="1">O</option>
</select>
?>
   
   Select AB option on from vocabulary 1
2. [field_references][0][value]=My%20References
   
   <?php
<textarea id="edit-field-references-0-value" class="form-textarea resizable textarea-processed" name="field_references[0][value]" rows="5" cols="60">My References</textarea>
?>
   
   Add My References to field_references field (text field on multiple rows).
   Note: it only works outside Groups (fieldset). Moving a field outside fieldset make it works.
3. [language]=en
   
   <?php
<select id="edit-language" class="form-select" name="language">
<option value="">Indipendente dalla lingua</option>
<option selected="selected" value="en">Inglese</option>
<option value="it">Italiano</option>
</select>
?>
   
   Select "Inglese" multilingual option (using the value as ID, like taxonomy) from Internationalization module.
4. edit[field_work][0][nid]=12
   
   <?php
<input id="edit-field-work-0-nid-nid" class="form-text form-autocomplete" type="text" value="Mai [nid:12]" size="60" name="field_work[0][nid][nid]" maxlength="128" autocomplete="OFF"/>
?>
   
   To select Mai (node/12) on the first nodereference CCK field. Note: name is field_work[0][nid][nid] but only [field_work][0][nid] works.

Main issues:

• Cannot select any CCK field contained into a fieldset: moving out make they work.
• Second cck nodereference field (e.g. [field_work][1][nid]) cannot be populated.

Update: to select CCK field into fieldsets, postpone the fieldset class, replacing "-" with "_" (tested using #13 patch). e.g.:

Standard field targeting:

Same field, into group (fieldset) named "ID":

I hope these tests will be useful to fix these bugs.

I don't believe the patch is working for me, but I could have my URL formatted wrong too.

I want to prepopulate a CCK nodereference dropdown field. Here is the HTML for the field:

<select id="edit-field-customer-nid-nid" class="form-select required" name="field_customer[nid][nid]">

And here is what I attempted for a URL:

http://localhost/drupal-6/node/add/activity?edit[field_customer][nid][nid]=Kingdom

I'd appreciate any suggestions. :)

Try http://localhost/drupal-6/node/add/activity?edit[field_customer][0][nid]=$nid
($nid means it should be the ID, not the title)

Sometimes ddanier #5 patch on my installation causes a "warning: array_keys() [function.array-keys]: The first argument should be an array" when targeting page title. On _prepopulate_get_walk !is_null($form['#default_value']) else missed the is_array($getslice) control statement. I attach the new patch (I have to test it more deeply).

#13 works for me on a node reference field (single value, select widget). Since thats better than what we have today, I mark this RTBC. You might want to fix up a few braces before commit since they don't perfectly match coding standards.

I thought I would help out so I went ahead and fixed the patch.

Don't want to seem impatient, but I like this module and have a few projects that could benefit from it.

Yup! Thanks alot. Lost half aday because of this bug. I fixed it by myself and (idiot me) only afterwards looked at the issues queue to find this patch already exists :)

Anyways! Good job!

And... MERGE IT INTO HEAD please! :)

#15 works for me on a nodereference select widget.

Any maintainers know when we could get this rolled into a new release or dev?

I confirm patch #15 this works nicely, please commit.

Committed to 6 dev and HEAD. Thanks to all. There are some new maintainers for the project, so hopefully they will step up and start getting the code moving again.

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

As is stated in #10 there only can be the first value of a multiple value field pre-populated.
(Second cck nodereference field (e.g. [field_work][1][nid]) cannot be populated.)

Any ideas how to accomplish this? Just adding up the delta doesn't work. CCK seems to need a preparation of values beforehand, maybe this is of any use: _content_widget_invoke('prepare form values', $node);

I added in my _form_alter (using SESSION var instead of GET var):

Then I can set multiple values via

This post was very helpful.

As a note, I was able to populate 6.X node_reference checkbox fields using:

<input id="edit-field-guides-nid-nid-18043" class="form-checkbox" type="checkbox" checked="checked" value="18043" name="field_guides[nid][nid][18043]"/>

The prepopulate URL looks like:
http://mysite/node/add/story?edit[field_guides][nid][18043]=18043

Thanks