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I have a simple example the uses an entity reference field that references taxonomy terms (e.g. "Arranger"). On import I need feeds to see if the term exists, reference it. If it doesn't exist, create and then reference it:
My CSV:
My Feed Mapping:
It imports everything else but not the entity reference field. It doesn't create the term either.
What do my feed mapping need to look like to allow entity reference to check for and if the term doesn't exist, create it (and then reference it)?
Perhaps the Feeds Tamper: String to ID module might in this situation?
A Feeds + Feeds Tamper plugin that resolves strings pulled in from feeds importers and maps them to Drupal entity IDs, so they can be used as entity references.
Adds support for freeform Entityreference linking when using Feeds.
What version of feeds are you using? You mention in one place it's an entity reference and another that it's a taxonomy term.
If it's taxonomy feeds 2.x alpha8 will work, you need to use tax term.
To get entity references working you need to use Entity reference feeds module.
Provides feeds integration for entityreference for mapping directly to properties of referenced entities.
- Utilizes Entity API to provide mapping targets for entity properties.
- Will automatically create new referenced entities and update existing ones using a GUID mapping to separate between the two.
- Set default values for required entity properties and avoid being forced to map them in Feeds
I had a similar problem passing values from a feeds source to Entity reference fields on a node.
I solved my problem by using Views Bulk Operations to manually set the the values for the entity reference fields after the feed had created/updated the node.
I appreciate that this isn't an elegant solution but if you only have 3-5 entities that are referenced it will work quickly and it is simple to set up...
Kinda late but you can use hook_feeds_after_parse and alter the results from your csv file before importing. In your case, convert the csv-field which I guess is the name of the taxonomy term (the one that you want to map to the entity (taxonomy) reference) into its tid and select Entity reference by Entity ID in the Feeds UI target list.
