By loze on

I've been searching, and haven't been able to figure this out.

I am using a CCK nodereference field as a select list in my content type, Im trying to have the option values populated from a field other than the title
Im having trouble setting up the view.
can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks

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jfall’s picture

jfall commented

I'm guessing you have tried creating a View to filter the nodes for the select list, and that your View only has one field - the field you actually want to show up in the list?

If so, I'd say the answer is no. I suspect (but haven't checked) that nodereference only uses the View to run the query and return the nodes, not to choose which field to display. You might want to report that as a feature request issue for nodereference.
Good luck.

michaelcrm’s picture

michaelcrm commented

I need this feature too!

Can anyone else confirm jfall's comment "nodereference only uses the View to run the query and return the nodes, not to choose which field to display" ?

gforce301’s picture

gforce301 commented

As far as I know this is the case. I have used views to modify the select used by node reference but it only uses the query generated by views and always shows the node title in the select.

tomsherlock’s picture

tomsherlock commented

I'm working on a similar issue: I don't want the node title to appear in the select list but rather values from fields of those same nodes.

I have been able to get the values from the fields to show up. But the title is appended with the label, e.g.

FieldOneValue FieldTwoValue - Title: TitleValue

So while i am able to show values in addition to the title, i still am unable to get rid of the title itself.