Posted by ademarco on June 10, 2009 at 10:12am
I've just contributed a new module for FeedAPI, it's called FeedAPI Field Inherit (http://drupal.org/project/feedapi_field_inherit). Here the project description:
Generalizing what the Feed Element Mapper module does for taxonomy, this module allows to automatically set fields in the feed items individual nodes by inheriting field values from the parent node.
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feedapi field inherit minus feedapi?
Hi Antonio, i've been using your feedapi_field_inherit module to get a taxonomy that i had added to a feed content type to be inherited by the generated feed items. Important here is that the taxonomy was something i added to the feed content type. A term had to be set manually for the feed along with the feed url, feed language and feed title. feedapi_field_inherit allowed me to copy that term for all the generated items of that feed to the generated nodes.
However, with the new feeds module that kind of mapping doesn't seem to be possible anymore.
I've looked around for other solutions but apparently it is very difficult to get a (generated) node's field to inherit a value from a "generator" node field's value. Do you perhaps know of other ways to achieve field value inheritance?
Wouldn't it be cool to break Fields inheritance away from feedapi and have it work on its own?
Without dependency on feedapi and feedapi_mapper? Should I create an issue?
Cheers, Willem