Is there a way to input the data of multiple content types all on the same page in Drupal 8?

Question

I have three content types: student, course, and student_takes_course (student_takes_course have two reference fields that points to the student and course content types).

To input a new student_takes_course record, I would first have to go to the student content type and input a new student record, and then go to the course content type and input a new course record, and only then I can go to the student_takes_course content type and input a new record that have references to the newly inputted student and course records).

But is there a way to input the student and course and student_takes_course records all on the same page?

Answer 1

Inline entity form allows you to create new, or reference existing, entities while creating/editing a parent.

This is a hugly powerful module, but can become confusing if you use it on both the parent and child, e.g. student_takes_course has an IEF referencing student, and student and a corresponding IEF referencing student_takes_course.

In this case you can create a new student (2) from student_takes_course (1) and then create a new student_takes_course (3) from student (2) and then a new sstudent (4) from student_takes_course (3 and so on.

• student_takes_course
• • student
• • • student_takes_course
• • • • student

The way around this is to use form modes to limit the fields shown in each IEF. Or don't have corresponding reference fields…