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Once upon a time there was a plugin that let you share custom field groups with different channels. Did a new way ever rise to the top? I am building a pretty large site and I really don’t want to manually duplicate custom fields across channels and give them slightly different names.

If such a way doesn’t exist, can anyone offer solutions to ease the pain?

Ah the much loved Gypsy add-on for EE1 😊

I have heard of an EE2 equivalent called Drifter but I think it’s unsupported now http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/drifter

However, because EE2 lets you customise the publish screen per channel, showing only the fields you need, it is possible to share the same field group among multiple channels.

What I tend to do for large sites is to have a general field group with the common fields in there - wysiwyg, meta data, image, link, matrix of images for gallery etc. I can then often use that for a lot of the site, hiding the odd irrelevant field by customising the publish layout per channel.

Right, Drifter. Yeah, it is dead so I don’t want to use it. The site is too big and I can’t send the client down an unsupported path.

I thought of customizing the publish page, but unless I am mistaken, that will only work if the field is NOT required. If I make a field required, and it isn’t needed for that publish page, won’t it throw up an error?

Thanks for the reply.

I’d say required fields could screw things up alright - I don’t tend to use many required fields in simple channels so I had not come up against that.

Yeah, it is problematic. If I don’t require fields and the client forgets to choose a Category or something, it all gets screwed up.

If I have 2 different groups under 1 channel, what should I do to access each group fields

for example

Channel Main - Group_1 - Group fields
Channel Main - Group_2 - Group fields

Thanks