Create Referencing Content button

Makes it easy to give site users a button to create content that references the content that they were looking at.

Features

People should be able to easily create new content that references the content they are viewing.

This module helps you make that possible, by giving site builders the ability to add a button to pieces of content of a given type that authorized visitors can use to create content referencing that content.

Use cases

Your website has academic articles and allow people to post full responses that undergo a content moderation workflow— more than you would want to handle with comments. You can use this module to add "Leave a review" buttons that create Review content which references Article content.

A recipe site allows people to post their own "inspired by" recipes. This module can help a site builder configure recipes to show a "Post your take on this recipe" button that opens a form to add a recipe, with back-reference to the recipe that inspired it already filled in.

Installation

Install with composer require 'drupal/create_referencing_content:^1.0@alpha'

Post-Installation

1. Create an extra field display of type at /admin/structure/extra-field/add by selecting "Create Referencing Content button" as the Extra Field Provider and choosing your referenced content type(s) to Enable On.
2. Administer the display of your referenced content type, for example for "Employer" content go to /admin/structure/types/manage/employer/display and enable the field named what you set in the step before, and then press the gear icon to set the Button label, Tooltip, Classes, and Target field (on the referencing content type). Remember to both press Update for your button display settings and then Save for the whole page.

The Entity Prepopulate settings for the target field will be updated for you automatically.

Additional Requirements

• Entity Pre-Populate (EPP)
• Extra Field Plus - Extra Field Settings Provider
• Extra Field Configuration

All three will be installed automatically. Extra Field Plus will only be used behind the scenes.

Recommended projects

Works great with Read-only field widget module.

Similar projects

There are modules that help you create the content that the content you are currently editing references, such as Create link on entity reference field, but not any that do rather the opposite, what this module does.

The alpha2 release of this module works with the Prepopulate module and could be the basis of a project doing exactly the same but with Prepopulate instead of EPP. As of alpha3 we switched to the more modern Entity Prepopulate module to achieve better integration with Read-only field widget.

Supporting this Module

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Community Documentation

… is welcome.