The 2026 Drupal Business Survey is open. Your response will help shape the future of the Drupal business ecosystem.The node reference module allows a view to be use to limit/sort/filter nodes for the drop down node reference field. However, you don't get to use the full range of possibilities of the views module such as exposed filters. The problem I am having is that the list of nodes in the node reference field is still to big for the basic views linkage (to node reference) to help. Has anyone (or is it possible and I just don't know it) that you can have a full view pop up as a "node selector" and then when a node in the view is selected (after using exposed filters to help find it) it returns that node as the selection for the node reference field? Any advice appreciated.... Thanks! - E
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Comment #1
markus_petrux commentedRe: "The node reference module allows a view to be use to limit/sort/filter nodes for the drop down node reference field."
That's a feature provided by the Node Reference module shipped with CCK package.
Re: "However, you don't get to use the full range of possibilities of the views module such as exposed filters."
Sure, and that's part of the reason I wrote the Node Relationships module. Try it out. Try the "Search and reference" feature. It provides a button next to the autocomplete field that opens a modal frame with a view that you can customize as you wish. Selected item is automatically placed in the autocomplete field on selection. Also, this module provides a multi-selection button for node reference fields that accept unlimited number of multiple values.
That being said, you should test the module and try for your self to see if it really covers your particular use case.
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ebremer commentedBrilliant! I have been using your module but I missed the "Search and reference" feature, my bad. I had to install jquery update before it would work, kept giving me a continuous loading cycle in the modal window but jquery update did the trick. A thousand "thank you"'s !