Content Type Fields, populate field with usable data when adding new content

Question

Trying to build a site that majoritly just uses Views and data structures defined within Drupal itself (aka: almost no programming on my end, though if it boiled down to it I will)

Trying to make a Music Album manager. Each album is a content type, and each track is a content type. I have in the Track content type a field called "Album" as a drop-down list which I wish to populate with existing Album records. Problem is, I have no idea how I'm supposed to do that..

Is there a method? is there a module? is there anything I can do? There must be a way somewhere, I would hate to have to drop the entire process here and start from scratch again

Answer 1

Don't worry you don't need to start again, this is such a common use case there are actually 3 modules out there that you can choose between.

• Entity Reference

• References (can be considered deprecated in favour of entity reference).

• Relation (allows for complex relationships, probably overkill for your case)

All 3 will allow you to add a field to your track content type that references an album node. You can choose from a select list, radio/check buttons or autocomplete widget out-of-the-box but I'm sure there are add-ons available if you need them.