By Lloyd on

I am creating two different contact types. The first will be called companies and have a minimal number of fields - namely the name of the company. Then I'll be creating a "product" content type. One of the fields in the product type will be "company" - where I want the user to be able to select one of the previously entered companies in the "company" content type via a dropdown box.

I'm sure there's a way of doing this but I kept running into issues when trying - namely that I couldn't figure out how to use an existing non-CCK field from one content type in another. And the company content type was only using the title field since that was all that was required.

Thanks.

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Lloyd commented

any thoughts please?

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silviojr commented

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silviojr commented

Anyone?

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WorldFallz commented

This is usually done with a nodereference field-- add a nodereference field to the 'product' content type that references the 'company' content type. Then, you can use views to mix and match info from both content types into a single display using 'relationships'.

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Lloyd commented

But nodereference can only be used with a CCK field, right? My original question is whether you can reference one of the default fields like Title. It seems like this is a known issue so I've resorted to requiring a duplicate CCK field.

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WorldFallz commented

Yes, but in order to reference the node title of another node, you need to relate the 2 content types with a nodereference field. Then, when you add that field as a views relationship you can reference any field from either content type. Or, if it's just a one-off situation you can do a node_load to load any node and get at it's fields that way.