Drupal how to render seperate fieldgroups from a content type (and a display suite trick)

Dominique De Cooman

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 22:21

A cck fieldgroup can be rendered alone. We had some quicktabs [3] we wanted to fill with our field groups. So we've builded a block for each field group to put in the quicktabs. Here is an example of one block where we called a single fieldgroup and rendered it.

First you call all fieldgroups information for a certain content type and then you give the fieldgroup_view_group function the correct fieldgroup definition and your node.

<?php
/**
 * Implementation of hook_block()
 */ 
function glue_block($op = 'list', $delta = 0, $edit = array()) {
  if ($op == 'list') {
    $blocks[0] = array(    
      'info' => t('Company Info'),
    );
    
    return $blocks;
  }
  else if ($op == 'view') {      
    switch($delta) {
      case 0:            
        $node = menu_get_object();
        if ($node->nid) {
          $groups = fieldgroup_groups('company');
          
          $node->build_mode = 'groupcalls';
          $content = fieldgroup_view_group($groups['group_vennootschapinfo'], $node);
  
          $block = array(
            'subject' => t('Company Vennootschaps info'),
            'content' => $content,
          );   
        }
        break;
    }
    return $block;
  }
?>

As an extra if you want to control the fieldgroup field order, but you dont want to mess with the order of your teaser or full node. When using display suite [4] you can make a custom buildmode (for example groupcalls) and in that buildmode you determine the order of your fieldgroups.