Hi all,
I've got a situation with nodes (ubercart products) and I need to connect them to manufacturer information. Since one mfr could apply to many products, the normal answer would be a different CCK content type and a node reference field in the product node. But my client prefers to see both the product and mfr info on the same edit form, with the ability to search existing mfr info during node creation, and then fill those fields with the found info. Which means editing two nodes of different content types on the same node edit page!
I don't know of any reasonable way to edit two nodes on the same form. The product info has to be a node since it ties in with Ubercart. I suppose the mfr info doesn't have to be a node, but I don't see that avoiding it being a node helps me in any way.
It's not a problem to create a custom module, but creating a module to edit two nodes in this way seems over the top. Any suggestions are welcome.
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look at
look at this: http://more.zites.net/embed-a-node-form-with-drupal-6
for 1>many linked node creation (not exactly what you want, but maybe an affordable compromise): http://drupal.org/project/nodereference_url
you'll probably have to write your own mechanism to pull data to a new node, but you can do it through the reference.
There's also
There's also http://drupal.org/project/popups_reference which lets you create another node from node edit screen using popups. It would need some kind of alteration to allow editing of an existing node reference though.