'Restricted Access' when using Data Entity + Entity Reference [#2277381]

Our site will have a database of games, each with a unique integer ID. There will then be reviews which reference these games. I have a table that stores the game information, and have this defined as an entity type with the game's id as the entity id. I have selected the game's name as the label under "Configure Entity Form." In the review content type, I have an entity reference field for the game, with the table entity as the target type, using simple mode. Now, regardless of whether I use a select list, checkboxes, or autocomplete, the label displayed is "- Restricted access - ". It does work, as when I select one, I will get the result I was expecting (using autocomplete) but it's not very useful to not be able to actually see the name of the game I'm selecting.

I feel like this should be a simple configuration change, but I haven't been able to locate it yet.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#5	data-entity-access-fix-2277381-5-D7.patch	711 bytes	chewie

Comments

Comment #1

gabtrek commented 18 June 2014 at 12:33

Hi, I have the same problem here. Same example, same behavior.
Please, help!

Thanks.

Comment #2

kscheirer

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Vallejo

commented 11 November 2014 at 19:46

As far as I can tell, it's because there's no access callback defined for the entities. There's a call to entity_access('view', $target_type, $entity) that always fails, so you get the default string "- Restricted access -".

The best solution would be to provide some sort of default access callback for all entities defined by data module. Or maybe you can add one with hook_entity_info_alter().

The workaround that I used was to set the entityreference field to use a view instead of simple entity selection. This would be the "Entity Selection" settings on the field. I created a simple view that returned the entity titles and use it on the field settings, seems to work fine.