Can't export field collection defined by other field collection with Features

I have the same problem. Did you ever find a workaround in the end?

I'm going to dare to raise this to major and hopefully get some attention on it. Also, I'll see if it's a quick fix, e.g. what they did in Features itself to make this work with nodes.

Alright, I have found a solution. It's really simple. The function field_collection_features_pipe_field_alter in field_collection.module needs to be renamed to field_collection_features_pipe_field_instance_alter.

It appears Features doesn't call the former anymore.

My version of Field Collection is already patched, so I can't provide a patch quite yet, but I will do some Git magic and post one soon.

Oh, forgot one thing. Change:

$pipe['field'][] = "{$field['entity_type']}-{$field['bundle']}-{$field['field_name']}";

to:

$pipe['field_instance'][] = "{$field['entity_type']}-{$field['bundle']}-{$field['field_name']}";

Here's the patch.

Looks like you might have built the patch in a repository other than the module's - just learning how to make these patches myself so I figured I'd give re-rolling it a try.

This needs to support both the old and new APIs, for sites that have not upgraded to Features v2 yet.

This patch adds field_collection_features_pipe_field_instance_alter() instead of replacing field_collection_features_pipe_field_alter(). It also adds a check to see if the new field_instance functionality is available before field_collection_features_pipe_field_alter() returns anything, to avoid unnecessarily causing problems by defining both the new 'field_instances' and the legacy 'field' values. Lastly, the docbook comments have been made more verbose to explain what is going on.

Thanks for the rerolls :)

This patch works for me on field collection 7.x-1.0-beta5 with features 7.x-2.0-rc1.

Patch in #8 also works nicely for me.

Thanks, committed.