Two qeuries or needs
1. can we have many common fields - so that each resultant node has all the common fields and one of multiple field?
2. Is it possible to have more than one (say 2) multi submit fields - so i have one common field but two fields as multi submit fields and each resultant node getting populated with three fields >> common field + multi submit field A and muti submit field B - is that possible. for example Description is common and then i have two multi fields - episode field and episode_report field - so that the final nodes that get created - each has title, episode1 and episode_report1.

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pobster commented

1. The nodes are cloned. So all nodes will share all the other fields, so what you're asking for *is* the current behaviour.
2. Nope. Well... Yes... But it doesn't do this at the moment and probably never will as the UI would become too complicated! I think though as you've misunderstood 1. then perhaps you need to rethink what it is you actually want?!

Pobster

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ratnesh aarohi commented

Thanks for the quick revert Pobster.
#1. was more of clarification - now clear - thanks.
#2 - i am actually clear of my requirement. I run a school. So my actual requirement is as follows:
The teachers fills in date and class name etc (common fields) and then for each child they write their observations - so here are two fields - one child name and two each child's observation.
Currently if there are 10 children in a class - we have to fill in cck one by one for each child.
We like to do a multi submit. IS something like this possible.

Also a little unrelated to this module - but just thought of checking with you - is there a way to (create) submit different cck via one submit button - what i am looking for is one page where i have at the top cck 1 (with its fields) and then cck2 (with its fields) and so on and then one submit button which creates that many nodes.

Thanks for your patience with my queries

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pobster commented

Ah okay that does make sense but I'm not sure how the UI would work. I mean how would you say that one CCK (2.x version ) field relates to another, the only real way is to use multigroups which isn't available until version 3.x - so I can't support this just yet…

I don't really see this as an issue though, the module was created to aid with the creation of nodes - not necessarily to have one singular place to maintain multiple nodes. If you want to do that, I'd suggest doing what we did in this project - use this module to create the nodes, have a View to show all the nodes and finally, use editablefields so that all these nodes can be maintained in one place, like a large spreadsheet.

As for your other question, this sounds a little too specific to your requirements. I'd say it sounds like you need to find someone to write something like that for you.

Pobster

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ratnesh aarohi commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Thanks for your patient replies. I am sure i would still use this module in some way :-)