Sorry I'm a little confused about this issue from your description. Are you saying you have a field for com_users that you want to display in com_content? If thats the case how are you expecting the two components to be linked? Maybe I completely misunderstand what you are talking about

Well it seems that all the fields get their own id such as if I add 3 fields to com_users they are fields 1-3 and then if I add 3 to content they are 4-6. This lead me to believe they were all stored together or something. I understand the fields might be dependent on each com, but if there was a way to use them together it will be powerful for certain scenarios. Perhaps there could be some logic such as if I want USER fields it would be {com_users field 2} or something. Just some ideas.

The field may have an id but that is the field not the stored value of the field.

Its not about knowing if it is a user or a content field. its about knowing which value to display

Do you want to display the value of fieldid2 for userbrian or userjay

When you say fieldid3 inside an item then it obviously looks for the value of that field for that specific item. Doesnt matter what type of item it is.

In your example you seem to be trying to grab the value of a completely unrelated field - or at least without somehow defining the relationship between the content item you are editing and and the user details that you want to display

Yes, I understand that - it would be a nice feature update at some point to be able to grab other fields from other coms too!

Before we close this - I showcased Extra Fields to our Tampa User Group last night and everyone was quite excited. One ? that came up is will Extra Fields be added to Contacts? Many people have to use other extensions for the contact page to add more fields.

As I said you would need to create a way of making the connection between the two different components. I havent checked but you could probably do that using the SQL field type

As for your request to add fields to the contacts component. That would be almost impossible to add at this time.

It's already there ;)

Thank you!

Jason Nickerson

Monev Software LLC / JoomlaXTC.com
Open Source Florida / JoomlaDay Florida
TampaBay Joomla User Group
JED QC Tester
Joomla Site Showcase Team

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 6:14 PM, Brian Teeman notifications@github.com
wrote:

As I said you would need to create a way of making the connection between
the two different components. I havent checked but you could probably do
that using the SQL field type

As for your request to add fields to the contacts component. That would be
almost impossible to add at this time.

It's already there ;)

—
You are receiving this because you authored the thread.
Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub
#14870 (comment),
or mute the thread
https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AGgNFLeDT2CXx_FYK2iq6LvDs4GcBGkmks5rou7JgaJpZM4MnNII
.