Arranging CCK fields in a row and connecting them

I am trying to make a nice looking input page for recipes. I am aware of the 'recipe module', and have tested it to fit my needs. This has been to no avail however.

So what I need to do is; put 3 CCK fields in the same row and bind their info together.

Example:

Quantity1 Unit1 Ingredient1

Quantity2 Unit2 Ingredient2

Quantity3 Unit3 Ingredient3

Quantity4 Unit4 Ingredient4

Dynamically allocate more ingredients if the recipe needs it.

How do I arrange the CCK fields like above example and make the number of ingredients dynamic.

What is more important is to link Quantity1 to Unit1 to Ingredient1 and the same thing to 2 etc.

All these things the Recipe module actually takes good care of (elegantly i might add). But I haven't been able to access its fields via CCK and this is a showstopper for my development efforts.

So I see 2 different approaches to getting my work done:
1. I find a way to integrate into 'Recipe module' with CCK so I can make Views etc. or
2. I find a way myself to arrange my recipe fields in a row and place the different fields nicely on a form.

Is anybody of you guys & gals aware of a viable way to do this?

I am working on a production plan so time is of the essence - please....

Have a nice day - greetings from Denmark.

Morten Enevoldsen

Seems like you want the

keith.smith - March 5, 2009 - 20:52

Seems like you want the feature described in this issue: http://drupal.org/node/119102

Note that this is a feature included with some recent versions of CCK, but disabled out of the box, because its not quite production ready.

Multigroup feature removed from CCK

asb - June 17, 2009 - 16:22

If I remember correctly, this "unfinished" feature has been removed from CCK a while ago because it simply did not work well enough. After months of high activity on the thead above, the Multigroup feature appears to have vanished in some kind of limbo (at least I havn't yet found out if and where development continues)).

A possible alternative might be the Flexifield module (which is also not quite production ready yet).

Basically, real-world-problems like this can't be solved with Drupal out of the box for production requirements at the moment.

Greetings, -asb

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WorldFallz - June 17, 2009 - 16:32

Fyi-- this feature has been moved to the 3.x-dev branch of cck for further development and testing.

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