To solve the full workflow that might go together with referencing entities, I am missing one crucial option in this widget: the ability to create a new referenced node from within the referencing node. There is already a module implementing this for the References module, References Dialog. It would be great to see a similar feature in this widget for Entity Reference as well.

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Tara1981’s picture

Tara1981 commented

The references dialog works for entity reference too.

Matthew Davidson’s picture

Matthew Davidson commented

As far as I can see, References Dialog only works with autocomplete widgets, and would take quite a bit of work to make compatible with this module.

Tara1981’s picture

Tara1981 commented

I ultimately ended up using entity_connect (rather than references_dialog) with entity_reference to implement this. I couldn't get entity reference view widget to work.

bojanz’s picture

bojanz commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

I won't be doing this. This module is complex and hard to maintain as it is.
Checkout Inline Entity Form for an alternative where you need actual management.
Having a better "Add existing"there might do the trick.

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I needed the filters from this module and the ability to create new items. A temporary solution I'm using is adding a 'add new item' link to the header of the view I use for this module. Then someone could click that link, create the item, X the window out, and press 'Apply' to update results and manually add their new item. Not ideal at all, but it's something for now.

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henrijs.seso commented
Title: create new entity » Create new entity

I'm struggling with same issue. Basically choice comes down to Entity Connect + Entity Reference View Widget (not yet tested if these play together) or Inline Entity Form (no views widget).