Posted by Mike Kettle on Tue, Nov 25, 2025 - 7:03am

Hi

Brilliant software which is why I haven't touched it for ages. Which explains why I'm rusty on the subject!

I have a new content type called "Item - Prize" which is defined as follows:

There's more but it's the first line that is important.

When I import through Feeds I was assuming that the "ID" would be populated from the node number so I get a unique title but the field is left blank.

Is what I'm trying to do possible? If so, a pointer in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

KR
Mike

Accepted answer

You could have a simple link using this:

Or you could make the Content: Nid field link to the content.

Give it a meaningful label and you don't need the title field in the View.  What I would do is maybe generate your titles in the source from a combination of fields so in Manage Content you have something to click on, which you won't if Title is blank.

Comments

Tue, Nov 25, 2025 - 7:35am by yorkshirepudding

Hi Mike. Glad your website is going well.  The field you've labelled ID is the Title so you will need to put something in there.

The node ID isn't assigned until the node is created so that isn't possible without some custom solution that sets a placeholder then updates it with a token afterwards.

What are you aiming to achieve by having the node ID as the title? It may be that you can achieve what you are aiming for in a different way using a View.

Tue, Nov 25, 2025 - 7:40am by Mike Kettle

Hi

I just want a simple unique automatic title for each item.

https://www.egtsc.co.uk/Annual%20Prizes

but without the nid column (or with if that solves the problem) but I would like the link so it's easy to get to.

KR
Mike

 

Tue, Nov 25, 2025 - 7:51am by yorkshirepudding

You could have a simple link using this:

Or you could make the Content: Nid field link to the content.

Give it a meaningful label and you don't need the title field in the View.  What I would do is maybe generate your titles in the source from a combination of fields so in Manage Content you have something to click on, which you won't if Title is blank.

Tue, Nov 25, 2025 - 8:04am by Mike Kettle

I was gonna say I'll go off and try them  options but the simple link looks like the easiest as it took seconds to implement!

Didn't really want to manage outside of BD as that requires human intervention (me) which is notoriously error prone!

Many thanks.