Content Construction Kit (CCK)

In our project we need to have a select box which lets the user choose among a list of items coming from an external data source (XML based webservice). It would be interesting to be able to retrieve the values of a CCK field from an external data source instead to "hardcode" the full list of values. A way to do it could be to specify, in the field setting, the XML end point and an xPath expression to map the values contained in the XML as values of the CCK field.

Any feedback on this?

I am new in drupal.

I have stories in which I have to put the option of radio button with private and public options.

Can I achieve this using CCK

If it is possible then please suggest its solution.Thanks in advance.

Hi.
Does there exist a tutorial about the CCK Node Reference fields?

I've created two content types, Father and Son. A Father can have many Sons.

I've added a new Node (Father) Reference field to Son.
I've also added an "Add new Son" link (node/add/son?field_father=123) when the user is on a Father-node page.

Now, I don't know how to autocomplete that Node Reference field with the nid of the Father node.

Could anyone help me?

I'll write a tutorial if it doesn't exist and I succeed to make this work.

Thanks anyway, Giovanni

I am currently in the very beginning stages of writing a book on Drupal Content Types that will focus on Core, CCK, and Views. I have a first draft of the outline that I am working on. I would love to get community feedback to help shape the book at this very early stage.

http://alanio.net/blog/2009/02/first-draft-drupal-book-outline-content-t...

Thank you,
Alan

I have just published a new module which might be of interest to some of you:

http://drupal.org/project/nodereference_views_select

From the project page:

Provides a widget for Node Reference which displays the node teasers instead of a select box, and allows choosing the referenced nodes
from a Modal panel. The list is optionally sortable, depending on JQuery UI Sortables. The modal supports pagination, exposed filters
and exposed sorting, all using AJAX.

Hello:

Is there a feature to clone an existing content type on the same drupal installation. Here's what i'm trying to achieve.

content type - job_posting_1 with certain groups and fields within them. This represents an application for a job posting and students can apply for the posting
now i want to create a new job posting for my company with a similar structure (but it may have minor changes to some fields). so is it possible to
clone job_posting_1 to job_posting_2.

I am working on porting a minimal version of the Bibliography module to CCK. I am doing this as the Biblio module doesn't serve my exact needs. On of the UI elements that the Biblio module does that I would like to mimic is a context specific fields for data entry depending on the selected publication type.

Drupal 6 has this natively -- an "Add more" button that adds additional fields. In Drupal 5, you have to save the node, then edit it, and only then do you have three more text fields to input.

I'm looking for a module or a form_alter snippet or whatever that can do something similar in Drupal 5. Anyone got pointers?

I've been searching for an example of getting the UID out of the CCK user reference module and used in the CCK compute module with no luck. Either I'm searching for the wrong stuff, in the wrong places, or an example of this is not out there. Can anyone help me out?

A generic example is fine, but my specific need is to take the 2 users selected from the cck user reference module and on the same node compute a field that takes the first and last names from a custom profile and concatenates them.