Questions tagged [entities]
Nodes, comments, taxonomy terms, and users, in the terminology used since Drupal 7, are generally called "entities."
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How to send a contact form via JSON:API?
What are the requirements for submitting the contact form using JSON:API?
I enabled the core Contacts module and set up a custom site-wide contact form. I gave permission to anon + auth users to ...
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How do I display field from one content type in another content type
I am working with Drupal 9. I found other questions similar, but I do not understand what they are saying to do, and they are 10+ years old so I do not know if they still apply.
Maybe the best way to ...
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Do something when a content is saved
I'm a total beginner in module coding and i'm trying to adapt a simple D7 module which is updating a field from a content type from an external API when the content is created or modified.
On an fresh ...
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How can I set validation rules on my entity fields and get errors if the data isn't valid
I have this entity which got the link field
This link is mandatory, has to be more than 3 chars and less than 255
Also it has to be a valid URL
class Myentity extends ContentEntityBase implements ...
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How do I control config names?
When creating a config entity, we get an example_entity.schema.yml file:
example_module.example_entity.*:
type: config_entity
label: 'Example config'
mapping:
id:
type: string
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How can I specify the relation type between two entities?
I am new two Drupal
Trying to create two entities, Post and Category (This is for tests purposes)
A Post can have one Category, and a Category can have multiple Post
Here is my implementation of the ...
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How to make media description show on form view when used as entity reference
Drupal 9...
I have a content type of "Resource" which uses a field "download" which references the media type "document", but when I upload a file to the field, it gives ...
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Entity reference link: add reference from Entity B to Entity A
I have created 2 Content entities. Entity A has an "Entity Reference Field" with multiple values to Entity B. This all work as expected.
What I want to achieve is, to create a link from ...
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How can I filter based on unique taxonomy term values?
I have a content type "book". One of its field "field_language" referencing to "language" taxonomy term. field_language can have only one value.
Consider this is the ...
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How do get a value from field in if/else statement
In a custom views-view-fields.html.twig I do print a list field (field_status) without issues. The values are:
new|New
old|Old
But if i want to do an if/else statement for printing different div ...
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How to completly remove a field?
I have removed a field from a bundle (it is not used somewhere else) by using the graphical UI.
But it is still listed when I run the following command (after cache clear)
$this->entityFieldManager-...
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Why do setter methods in an entity return $this?
Writing a custom entity type I noticed that all setter methods in entity classes are returning $this after changes, as methods modify the object and so object will definitely being modified, then
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Programmatically find out field name of an Id-field
Depending on the type of entity, it is either nid/vid/uid and possibly other. It is nice to have an ->id() method which allows you to work with data in an uniform fashion without relying on those ...
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How to remove the fieldsets that are pup around "list (text)" fields that have their display set to "Check Boxes / Radio Button"?
We have a Drupal 9 website and are using "list (text)" fields whose displays are set to "Check Boxes/ Radio Button". This causes the output to be wrapped in a field set which we ...
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Unique constraint on several entity fields fails when >1 jsonapi POST requests happen right after another
In a fully decoupled drupal 9 project I have a custom entity type and added a unique constraint for several fields just as described here. This works well and adding a second entity with the same ...
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Theming a EntityListBuilder.php table using drupal/examples/content_entity_example as base
Any idea how I could to use my own custom module twig file to theme my table?
I'm using drupal/examples -> content_entity_example as a starting point:
in content_entity_example.module implementing ...
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How to copy fields from an entity to another for same type entities?
I have 2 entities of the same type & bundle but used in 2 different cases (linked differently to different entities). Upon publishing the second entity, I want to get the new data and put it into ...
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Number field type for specific format
I have to store number data into database in format xx-xxxxxx-xx for example I have xml data in format:
ISBN="10-000000-701"
ISBN="11-000000-002"
ISBN="11-000000-004"
and ...
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Connect field with Taxonomy Term
I have taxonomy Brand and different fields like RAM, Monitor, 'CPU' under content-type Hardware.
While adding a new Hardware how can I add RAM, CPU or other fields with Brands?
e.g.
RAM = 16 GB, Brand ...
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Custom reference field saving empty values
I've created a custom field based on entity reference field but the target_id it saves comes from an external system.
I have the field type, field widget and autocomplete element defined and working ...
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How do I add a revisions tab to a custom content entity and list revisions? [duplicate]
I'm trying to achieve exactly what's described on
How to add revisions tab to a custom content entity and list revisions?
I created my custom entity using Drush, and set it revisionable: Doin that, I ...
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EntityQuery condition only if field exists
How to apply a condition only if a field exists?
$query = \Drupal::entityQuery('node')
->condition('type', 'videos')
->condition('field_tags', 39, '=')
->condition('status', 1)
->...
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How does Postgres manages case-sensitive versus case-insensitive “IN” operations in Entity Queries?
I see that an equality is converted to a LIKE operation when the field is tagged as case-insensitive, which Postgres then translates to ILIKE in the driver. However, I don’t see how Postgres is able ...
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How to remove a spurious entity update?
Something (I'm not sure what) has introduced what appears to be a spurious entity update into my Drupal 9 site. I'd like to delete the update so that I'm no longer prompted to apply it.
> drush ...
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Entity reference auto complete field is missing value on ajax callback
I have an entity reference field on my content type using the autocomplete widget.
I'm adding an ajax callback to that field using this in a form alter:
$form['field_er']['widget'][0]['target_id']['#...
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Entity reference field dependant on other entity reference field
Drupal 9.
I have a content type with two entity reference fields.
The first entity reference field references group entities provided by the group module.
The second entity reference field references ...
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Custom Entity "changed" field is unknown
I'm having a problem I really don't know how to solve, and need your knowledge. I have a custom entity that someone created, and forgot to add the "changed" field. So the objective is to add ...
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Two step entity reference selection
I want to create a two step entity reference selection in Drupal 9.
The structure so far:
Content Type: Company
--> Entity reference: Jobs (multiple)
Content Type: Job
--> Entity reference: ...
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How to hook on paragraph deletion?
I'm on D9 and I've a paragraph inside a content type node.
I need to hook when the paragraph is deleted to do some custom logic and set up a queue.
I've tried hook_entity_delete, hook_entity_predelete ...
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How to display the parent taxonomy term of the "Tags" field?
On my Drupal 9 site, I created taxonomy terms in the "tags" vocabulary (the vocabulary and the default field of the "article" content type) :
When I create a node, I select a ...
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Can't save value of custom datetime field
I'm reaching out because I just can't find out why my custom datetime field isn't saving its value after I submit.
Context:
I've created a field containing two datetime fields. I will use it to add or ...
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How get the referenced entity inside a field link?
I'm on D9. I've a paragraph with a Link field.
I need to get the referenced entity programmatically.
What I've managed so far is:
$nid = NULL;
$field_link = $paragraph->get('...
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How do I get the selected image style from a referenced media field?
I created a custom block with an entity reference to a media field (field_background_image).
In the display settings I have chosen 'Thumbnail' as format and selected a custom image style 'background'.
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How to get the revision of a paragraph
I have a code which is running in hook_node_update. This code grab the revision of the saved node and compare the values of the fields between current node and its revision to generate some kind of ...
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How can I remove default image from image fields?
I need to create an image field with a default value, which must also be nullable on single content entities. Contrary to text fields or entity reference fields, I was unable to remove this default ...
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How to alter the view behind a select widget in a regular node edit form
I have an entity_reference field in a content type: field_node_ref
In the field definition, it can reference all the nodes of a given type.
The widget used for this field is a select widget
Depending ...
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Is there a way to duplicate existing fields instead of manually creating new ones?
I am using Drupal 9 and I have a template which will require 40 text fields and 20 image fields.
They are meant to display 20 individual products, so they are all similar. The display would be ...
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How can I programmatically render the summary of a textfield?
I can output a textarea field with the following code:
$entity->fieldname->view();
How do I need to change that code for getting the summary of that field?
(Where can I find a documentation of ...
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How to add Rabbit Hole to a custom content entity
We use the module Rabbit Hole for nodes and terms. Now we would like to use it also for our custom content entities. I have tried to find some information, how to add the Rabbit Hole to a custom ...
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Get all entity reference options from a field name
I would like to create a node programatically and one field field_supervisors has an entity reference field for the node type People.
In order to set the correct entity reference information I need to ...
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How get the view mode\third_party_settings of a field inside hook_preprocess_image_formatter(&$variables)
I'm on D9.
I've added a custom option to the image field formatter following Drupal guidelines
In the preprocess of the field I can get the settings I've created:
function my_module_preprocess_field(&...
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How can one programmatically get the bundle constraint for an entity reference field?
I'm working in the context of a Views plugin. I have $entity_type and $field, as required in the snippet below. How can I get the bundle constraint for the entity reference field programmatically?
/** ...
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How get webform translations programmatically?
I'm on Drupal 9. I need to load the options labels of a Webform's option programmatically.
So far, I've managed to load the labels:
$element = $webform_submission->getWebform()
->...
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Read entity reference node field
I have a referenced entity named - field_cp_level2_ref_level3. This field belongs to level3 content type. when I dump the $entity, I see the field as below:
entity:node:level3::...
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Is it possible to convert a text field to an email type field that has exiting data in Drupal 9?
We have a Drupal 9 site that has a plain text field with existing data that was used for email data. We'd like to convert this field type to email. Is this possible?
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How to use entityQuery with custom field type?
I am working on building a query for nodes that have a few custom fields (field types). The fields are custom build in a custom module with a custom schema. When I execute the query:
$query = \Drupal:...
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How do I know what properties and methods are available to an entity_metadata_wrapper object?
It may be easiest to start with an example.
The entity_metadata_wrapper() function seems to do a lot of complex magic behind the scenes in order to return an object with all data related to the entity ...
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EntityQuery where multi-value field contains a value
I've been programming for 15 years, 10 with PHP, but on my 1st Drupal project. Using Drupal 9.
I'm trying to retrieve an entity (custom content type) that has 2 multi-value entity (user) fields. If ...
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Build custom form with entity form field
I have a feature to migrate from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9. This allows me to build a custom form made up of static fields, which I define in the code of my module, and fields dynamically retrieved from an ...
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Set ['#default_value'] of taxonomy term reference field via hook_form_alter()?
Here's a different question with the same taxonomy term reference field I mentioned in my previous question.
Users with Administrator and Coach roles are granted permission to register Student users ...
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