On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Nancy Wichmann <[email protected]> wrote: > After reading Eaton's well-written article > http://www.lullabot.com/articles/great-pretender-making-your-data-act-field, > I tried this in a module I work on. The fields are definitely showing on > "Manage fields" in CCK. > > However, those added fields do not seem to be available to Views. One of the > reasons why I am really interested in making this change is so that > something like Node Export can see these fields automatically. What more > needs to be done to the suggested code to have CCK reflect these fields to > other modules?
All that hook_content_extra_fields() really does is tell CCK about other node data so that they can be reweighted using the UI. Views support is a whole different animal that's done through hook_views_data()... and thorough documentation would make a great book. andrew
