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I have two entities: People and People Notes.

The People entity is in another database with the People Notes is in the local Drupal database.

Schema for People:

PeopleId FirstName LastName DOB

Schema for People Notes:

NoteId uid PeopleId (entityReference) Signed (Boolean)

From a post I found here, I've created a custom action called Signed to execute a PHP script with the code below - 

global $user; $entity_notes_array = array(); $entity_notes_array['uid'] = $user->uid; $entity_notes_array['field_people_reference']['value'][0] = 1; // Using 1 to test the reference $entity_notes_array['field_signed']['value'][0] = 1; $entity_notes = entity_create('people_notes', $entity_notes_array); $entity_notes->save();

I have a view created that uses the People table as its base and then I bring in the People_Notes table through an entity reference. The view also has a VBO that executes the Signed script.

Two questions:

1 - How do I save the entity People Notes? The script process with no error messages and it successfully returns with "Action Signed Petition saved", but when I got to see what was created the admin page does not list the new entity.

2 - How do I reference the PeopleId from the view?

Additional Information on People Notes

 /** * Implements hook_entity_info(). */ function people_notes_entity_info() { $info = array(); $info['people_notes'] = array( 'label' => t('People Notes'), 'base table' => 'people_notes', 'entity keys' => array( 'id' => 'id', 'label' => 'label', ), 'label callback' => 'entity_class_label', 'uri callback' => 'entity_class_uri', 'entity class' => 'PeopleNotesEntity', 'controller class' => 'PeopleNotesEntityController', 'views controller class' => 'PeopleNotesViewsController', 'admin ui' => array( 'path' => 'admin/peoplenotes', 'controller class' => 'PeopleNotesUIController', 'menu wildcard' => '%notes', 'file' => 'people_notes.admin.inc', ), 'module' => 'people_notes', 'access callback' => 'people_notes_access_callback', 'fieldable' => TRUE, 'bundles' => array( 'people_notes' => array( 'label' => t('People Notes'), 'admin' => array( 'path' => 'admin/peoplenotes', 'access arguments' => array('admininster notes'), ), ), ), 'view modes' => array( 'full' => array( 'label' => t('Full View'), 'custom settings' => FALSE, ), 'part' => array( 'label' => t('Partial View'), 'custom settings' => FALSE, ), ), ); return $info; } function people_notes_menu() { $items = array(); $items['peoplenotesdemo'] = array( 'title' => 'People Notes Demo Page', 'page callback' => 'people_notes_demo_page', 'access callback' => TRUE, 'menu' => 'navigation', ); $items['notes/%notes'] = array( 'title' => 'People Notes Entity Page', 'title arguments' => array(1), 'page callback' => 'people_notes_view_entity', 'access arguments' => 'view notes', 'page arguments' => array(1), 'type' => MENU_CALLBACK, ); return $items; } function people_notes_load($id) { $people_notes = entity_load('people_notes', array($id)); return array_pop($people_notes); } function people_notes_save($people_notes) { return $people_notes->save(); } function people_notes_demo_page() { $people_notes = entity_load('people_notes', array(1)); kpr($people_notes); return 'Hi Notes from Mark'; } function people_notes_page_title($people_notes){ return $people_notes->id; } /*function people_notes_view_entity($people_notes) { $people_notes_entity = entity_view('people_notes', array($people_notes->id => $people_notes)); kpr($people_notes_entity); return 'Hello Mark'; } */ function people_notes_view_entity($people_notes, $view_mode = 'full') { //drupal_set_title('(' . $people_notes->id . ')'); $people_notes_entity = entity_view('people_notes', array($people_notes->id => $people_notes)); return $people_notes_entity; } function people_notes_permission() { return array( 'administer notes' => array( 'title' => t('Administer Notes'), ), 'view notes' => array( 'title' => t('View Notes on a person'), ), ); } function people_notes_access_callback($op, $people_notes = NULL, $account = NULL) { if (($op == 'view' && user_access('view notes', $account)) || user_access('administer notes', $account)) { return TRUE; } else if ($user_access('administer notes', $account)) { return TRUE; } return FALSE; } /* * Controller classes are located in the includes direcotory * */ // ...
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You will need to change the value to target_id. Entity references do not use value index

global $user; $entity_notes_array = array(); $entity_notes_array['uid'] = $user->uid; $entity_notes_array['field_people_reference'][LANGUAGE_NONE][0]['target_id'] = 1; $entity_notes_array['field_signed'][LANGUAGE_NONE][0]['value'] = 1; $entity_notes = entity_create('people_notes', $entity_notes_array); $entity_notes->save();
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  • Chad - thanks for the response. Neither worked however. I have added some additional information to make sure I'm setting up my entity correctly. Also, had a typo - entity_metadata_wrapper - you missed the 'a' in metadata. Commented Nov 20, 2014 at 19:27
  • Can you execute the second set of code in devel using execute php code and create an entity? Commented Nov 20, 2014 at 19:45
  • Nope got the following error - EntityMetadataWrapperException: Entity property uid doesn't support writing. in EntityStructureWrapper->setProperty() (line 493 of /var/www/drupal7/sites/all/modules/contrib/entity/includes/entity.wrapper.inc). Commented Nov 20, 2014 at 20:07
  • What is your uid property? Is that your incremental value? If so then remove that as it should automatically generate the id for you Commented Nov 20, 2014 at 20:26
  • The code below creates an entity but not the attached fields global $user; $entity_notes_array = array(); $entity_notes_array['uid'] = $user->uid; $entity_notes_array['field_people_reference'] = 1; // Using 1 to test the reference $entity_notes_array['field_signed'] = 1; $entity_notes = entity_create('people_notes', $entity_notes_array); $entity_notes->save(); Commented Nov 20, 2014 at 20:26
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Below is the final solution. Both questions have been answered. I finally figured out why the script was not firing. I was having the VBO on the entity (people_notes) and not the referenced entity (people). Because the people_notes was being created with the action there was nothing being passed to the action. Once I switched the VBO to people it fired successfully and created the people_notes entity.

Also @chadpeppers originally suggested entity_metadata_wrapper but that did not work due to not have a setter function defined for the uid field. I defined a setter function and then entity_metadatawrapper worked correctly.

global $user; $entity_notes = entity_create('people_notes', array()); try { $wrapper = entity_metadata_wrapper('people_notes', $entity_notes); $wrapper->uid->set($user->uid); $wrapper->field_people_reference->set($entity->PeopleId); $wrapper->field_signed->set(1); $wrapper->save(); drupal_set_message(t('Signature Scrubbed!')); watchdog('Signed Petition', 'Signed Petition action fired!'); } catch (EntityMetadataWrapperException $exc) { watchdog( 'Signature Scrubbed Action', 'See ' . __FUNCTION__ . '() <pre>' . $exc->getTraceAsString() . '</pre>', NULL, WATCHDOG_ERROR ); }
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