Hi All,

My thanks in advance of all subsequent replies, and thank you to you all for creating such a create community and creating Drupal.

I have a bit a technical question regarding building content types. I couldn't just see the answer the anywhere, but I am quite prepared to admit that it might of been starring me in the face.

I am creating a lot of custom content types for a project that I am working on, but it dawned on me. Is it better to re-use the fields that are the same content type rather than to create new ones?

So for example if I create 2 Review content types, one for TV and one for Radio:

Radio Review

  1. Review Title
  2. Name of Radio
  3. Materials made out of
  4. clarity of sound
  5. Is it portable?

TV Review

  1. Review Title
  2. Name of TV
  3. Materials made out of
  4. clarity of sound
  5. clarity of image

Some of those fields are going to be similar (Name, Materials made out of, clarity of sound). So if I created the radio review first, when I create the TV review and the tv review fields which are similar, from a design/performance/best practice point of view, am I best off creating new fields or reusing the Radio Review fields?

Thanks in advance for all posts,

Mark.

Comments

mark_ian_newton’s picture

...a bit further reading @ Drupal book has shown that I have not read around this enough.

This documentation seems to suggest that where possible fields should always be re-used unless there is a permissions issue.

Sorry for creating a bit of a nonsense...but maybe it will help others in the future!

Thanks again for anyone who has read up on this for me, my question is now solved.

Mark.