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I have been reading Brandon Kelly’s article Custom Fields and the Death of the Field Group. In it he explains that sometimes you have custom fields which you want to appear in more than one channel which is an issue I have. Since his proposals in the article don’t exist yet, what’s the best way to have custom field appear in different channels? Should I just make a new channel and repeat the same field?

In ee1 you would use gypsy plugin by brandon. For ee2 you can use https://github.com/tilzinger/Drifter.eeaddon

I’d like to apologize to everyone for the lack of updates to Drifter. As noted on my site it says “use with caution”. EllisLab has made changes to the API in each of the last 3 updates, which requires changes to Drifter and is obviously causing some issues that I have not looked into yet. Since it’s a free add-on, it is not at the top of my priority list.
I’ve been thinking about this for awhile (weeks actually)... I’m no longer going to officially support Drifter. It was originally developed as a bit of an experiment (my first EE 2 add-on), and it worked with 2.0 and was fairly stable, but later versions of EE are making it hard to keep it that way. I’ve added Drifter to GitHub for the community to run with it. https://github.com/tilzinger/Drifter.eeaddon

posted 01-20-10 by drifter developer Brian Litzinger boldminded.com

Thanks Brain for this post. I guess I’ll stick with repeating fields inside of new channels. Considering Brandon’s article, I see EE’s rational for the relationship between fields and channels; however, redundant fields seems inefficient.