Puilling Information From Referenced Entities to Display/Use In A Custom Content Type?

Question

Exposition

I have two Content Types with the following fields:

• Scenes

  1. Scene Name
  2. Starring (Actor's names)
  3. Streaming Link

• Releases (DVD Releases)

  1. Title
  2. Description
  3. Starring (All actor's names from all Scenes referenced)
  4. Scenes (Entity references to the Scene Content Type)

My question

When displaying a Release node, how can I get Drupal to generate the list of Starring Actors by taking the names from the 'Starring' fields in the Scene nodes that have been referenced?

Thanks

Answer 1

Two suggestions

First, the most common solution:

1. Create a View
2. Add a "relationship" from Release to Stars
3. Add whatever fields you want to display, in this case, "Name", and make they "Use relationship Stars".

Second, what I would have done:

1. Create a suitable Panels Page for Releases
2. Create a mini-panel for Stars
3. Add the Stars reference field to the releases page with "Panels reference formatter", choose the mini-panel as the formatter.

Intro to Views.

Intro to Page manager and Panels.