Autocomplete not working on Entity Reference field in Field Collection to another Field Collection [#1826608]

Hello everyone,

I have a content type that has a field collection. In that field collection is a field which is an entity reference field. On this entity reference field I have MODE -> "Views: Filter by an entity reference view" selected and then have my Entity Reference View chosen. My Entity Reference view is a a field collection view and produces the expected results in the view preview. On my entity reference field I have it set to widget type = autocomplete. When typing in the autocomplete field I expect to get one of the results in my Entity Reference View preview but I don't. If I change my widget type to select list, that works and I see my correct view results in the select list.

Am I missing something to get autocomplete working? I made sure to choose the correct field I would like autocomplete to use for searching in my view under Format -> Entity Reference List -> Settings.

Drupal 7.15
Entity reference 7.x-1.0-rc5
Entity API 7.x-1.0-rc3
views 7.x-3.5
Chaos tool suite (ctools) 7.x-1.2

Thanks for reading,
-Tim

Comments

Comment #1

Hooker CreditAttribution: Hooker commented 6 November 2012 at 15:43

I have the same problem I have a view user format entity reference list, when I choose the widget select list it works but doesnt with autocomplete (even tag style) ...

I dont know what to do :'(

Comment #2

Anonymous (not verified) CreditAttribution: Anonymous commented 14 November 2012 at 17:23

Have you tried other autocomplete fields such as a tags field? The problem may be more than just the entity reference field?

Comment #3

TimG1 CreditAttribution: TimG1 commented 14 November 2012 at 17:42

Hi. Yes, for me other autocomplete fields work fine. I've only noticed this on the entity reference list.

Comment #4

FiNeX CreditAttribution: FiNeX commented 8 May 2013 at 10:00

Same problem here using current -dev versions.

Comment #5

johnri99 CreditAttribution: johnri99 commented 20 May 2013 at 20:20

I'm having exactly the same problem, I am trying to get a user selected on a field I have created called Real Name, but it will not find people. It does search if I make the referenced field the user name, which suggests that it is not creating an index of this field, this is despite selecting the field as one to search in the Entity Reference settings

Comment #6

GlitchFreak CreditAttribution: GlitchFreak commented 22 May 2013 at 10:51

Are you using field collection table as the formatter? If so, this might be related to #1945998: Autocomplete of reference fails in second row

Comment #7

johnri99 CreditAttribution: johnri99 commented 22 May 2013 at 22:37

I found a way to make it work but it needs a patch, see http://drupal.org/node/1893478

Hopefully this will work for others

Comment #8

Anonymous (not verified) CreditAttribution: Anonymous commented 8 July 2013 at 22:47

I found the issue could be fixed by disabling the "hide blank items" checkbox in the field collection at the content type level.

Comment #9

b.ravanbakhsh

Adelaide

CreditAttribution: b.ravanbakhsh commented 2 January 2014 at 22:48

@martinjbaker you save me a day, God bless you

Comment #10

Maurice M. CreditAttribution: Maurice M. commented 6 January 2016 at 16:20

Issue summary:

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I had this issue with a node reference autocomplete widget. Maybe I can safe someone some time to explain what was going wrong in my case.

I tried to add English nodes to my Portuguese node. This resulted in no JS errors and there was a normal request to the autocomplete js with no results.

If you have translation disabled for your content type you will have to activate this and change the language on all your nodes that are not right. (this can be done in the DB aswell in the node table, maybe faster for alot of nodes, or bulk operations "change value"). If the node you are looking for has the same language of the node you are on, autocomplete nodes will be shown.