Any timeline for compound field support?
Folks told me compound filed will be supported in CCK 3. Is it true? If yes, it is great.
Currently, CCK does not support compound field unless developers make such a filed themselves.
Even developers make a compound field, it still has some serious limitation:
For example, you cannot set the number of values on an individual field in a compound field.
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Multigroup module in CCK3
http://drupal.org/node/484068 (experimental release)
http://drupal.org/node/494100 (State of the multigroup module)
multigroup integrated into 3.x-dev
For anyone lacking the ambition to click on @markus_petrux's links, multigroup is part of 3.x-dev. Prior to this, I hacked up with 2.x with a .info file to enable the "hidden" multigroup functionality. It's really quite spectacular in 3.x-dev, but @markus_petrux is right on his analysis that it's not production-ready. (Where production-ready = "ready for issue queue support from joe schmoe".)
In my limited experience, it depends on your application and if you can 100% nail down some CCK edge cases and really closely watch the development, it might be okay to use 3.x-dev. (Waiting for the knives to come shooting across the Internet...)
[I had serious issues with this kind of thinking at DrupalCon DC, but Matt Cheney from Chapter3 (@populist) kind of embarrassed me into reevaluating that strictness. And rightfully so.]