Possible uses of CCK node-reference and user-reference

Question

CCK is gone from Drupal7 and was replaced with the Fields API which is now part of core, but nodereference and userreference were not ported. This creates a problem for me because I use those 2 modules extensively.

There's an effort to work something out to replace these 2 modules with something more compatible with drupal7, but the solution will depend on usage. I'm curious how people are using these 2 modules. Please list your usage below so that the replacement solution takes it into consideration when possible.

I'll start

• I use userreference to give individual permissions to a private node

Answer 1

CCK will exist in D7 to provide node references, user references, fieldgroups, field-level permissions, and an upgrade path from the D6 CCK API to the D7 Field API. See http://drupal.org/node/533222 for more information.

There's been talk of splitting up the remaining CCK modules into their own separate projects, but I honestly think that will not happen, especially with the upgrade path being important.

Answer 2

I use it only for display only: Relations such A has-one B, A has-many C, that require additional "stuff" are way beyond this module.

e.g. On delete of A, delete all B, or A has-at-least-one B and so on.

So: only when I have a node-type that we, occasionaly want to expand with some display-stuff. Never when we implement true relations.

Another Rule Of Thumb, is that we should have only very few relations. In cases where each node has one-or-more relations, noderelation cannot scale and we implement our own.