Overview
Dynamic Entity Reference provides a field type/widget/formatter combination for Drupal 8 that allows an entity-reference field to reference more than one entity type.
Features
Create a single field to hold references to Users and Nodes, Or Terms and Nodes, or all three.
8.x-1.x or 3.x with D10 support:
This version only supports content entities with integer IDs as referenceable entities. It doesn't allow content entities with string IDs as referenceable entities.
8.x-2.x or 4.x with D10 support:
This version allows all content entities as referenceable entities. This version also allows all config entities as referenceable entities but it is only configurable programmatically. The content and config entities can be referenced in the same field as well.
DER Extra
Use DER Extra to shows multi-value DER field autoccomplete widget built using chosen. It only works with DER>1.4 OR >2.0-alpha6. For all other versions please use the patch from #2907597: Make DERI::getSettableOptions more usable.
Note:
Dynamic Entity Reference 8.x-2.x fields with numeric IDs aren't supported by all hosting platforms, specifically Acquia. #2930423: MySQL triggers aren't supported on all hosting platforms
Version
| Version | >=1.11 | >=2.0-alpha14 | >=1.16 | >=2.0-alpha19 | >=3.x-dev | >=4.x-dev |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core | ^8.7.7|| ^9.1|| ^9.2 | ^9.3 | ^10 | |||
| PHP | <=7.3 | >=7.4 | >=8.1 | |||
Requirements
7.x-1.x
8.x-1.x, 8.x-2.x, 3.x, 4.x
- Field module (in core)
Known problems
Please use the issue queue to report problems.
DER issues in core.
Credits
Development being undertaken by @larowlan and @jibran of PreviousNext
Tutorials
- Drupal modules the one percent did a screencast of this module in action (4 minutes long)
Supporting organizations:
supported the development work
Project information
- Project categories: Site structure
26,628 sites report using this module- Created by larowlan on , updated
Stable releases for this project are covered by the security advisory policy.
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Releases
4.0.0-alpha6
released 2 February 2026
Works with Drupal: ^10 || ^11
The one that plays nicely with D10 💧🔟
Install:
Development version: 4.x-dev updated 2 Feb 2026 at 03:31 UTC
