Problem/Motivation

The objective is to be able to display [node:title] or other node tokens through a paragraph field on a node. Presently it does not work and only renders [node:title] as text.

Steps to reproduce:

  • Install token_filter module
  • Configure token filter module to use tokens on Rich Text fields (docs on how to do this in D7)
  • Create a Paragraph type with a Rich Text field
  • Create a Node type with a paragraph field using the Paragraph type
  • Create a new node using the Node type and for the Paragraph type's rich text field enter: "[node:title]"
  • Save and view the page and notice it displays "[node:title]" instead of the node's title

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Comments

Syntapse created an issue. See original summary.

josephdpurcell’s picture

josephdpurcell commented
Title: How can I access [node:title] token from within paragraph entity on a node's paragraph field? » Access node tokens from within paragraph entity on a node's paragraph field using token filter
Category: Bug report » Feature request
Issue summary: View changes

Updating title and description and setting as "Feature request".

Syntapse’s picture

Syntapse commented

this is duplicate of https://www.drupal.org/project/paragraphs/issues/2927683.
adding comments there.

nixar’s picture

nixar commented

I think this feature is very important because Paragraphs is presented as the only alternative to field collections in D8. But Field collections always had a host token which would allow to reuse data from the host entity. It can be problematic for people trying to migrate their code from D7 w/ field collections to D8 w/ paragraphs.

Paragraph entities need a reference to the host entity and make the parent field available as tokens if the host exists.

My use case is this:
I have a meeting entity that has lots of text and file fields and child paragraphs for meeting handouts (file field, category taxonomy, description field).
The files are uploaded to a dynamic destination using filefield_paths to something like "meetings/[field_meeting_type]/[field_meeting_date]"
I really would like to be able to keep all my files in the same folder so ideally I would set up the file field in my handout paragraphs to use a custom upload folder set to something like "meetings/[host:field_meeting_type]/[host:field_meeting_date]" except there are no token for the host entity.

I'm not proficient enough with D8 to write a patch for this unfortunately.

jasonluttrell’s picture

jasonluttrell
Location Washington, DC area
commented

@nixar your scenario mirrors my situation. I really would like to see something like that implemented.