ECK Extend

About

This module extends ECK module providing extra property behaviors as well as some UI features.

Unlike fields, entity properties are single-value, but are stored in the entity table.
Entity properties are shared trough all entity bundles.
When designing your data, moving from fields to properties can significantly improve the load/save time of your entity.

Dependencies

• ECK
• Date
• Entity Reference Autocomplete

Some notable behaviors

• + reference - allows any entity type to be referenced.
• (example: in order to add a node reference, select the Reference behavior, add the machine name of the property as id_node)
• + vocabulary - allows referencing taxonomy terms.
• (example: select the Vocabulary behavior, add the machine name as id_{vocabulary})
• + date popup - saves a timestamp in the database and uses date_popup as a widget
• + text
• + number

Other

The module provides a theming function for entity properties that allows to alter the property access. The property is loaded in the entity object, but it's access is controlled from the theme.

@TODO:

+ Provide a reference edit form.
+ Update the reference and vocabulary behaviors allowing the referenced entity type to be stored in the property information and not in the name.
@see https://www.drupal.org/node/2398807
+ Provide View/Edit/Delete own permissions for ECK entities.
@see https://www.drupal.org/node/2402819