Drupal 7 Entity Reference Module - Daily Dose of Drupal Episode 7
Why Drupal Answers Stack Exchange recommends it
Drupal Answers users link it when someone needs to connect content types or users to content and wants a simple walkthrough of the Entity Reference module.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2013 to 2018.
What it is
A roughly 10-minute episode of CodeKarate's Daily Dose of Drupal series covering the Entity Reference module in Drupal 7. It shows how to relate one node to another and how to link a user to a node, using an inventory example where a user checks out an item.
What people said
Recommends sylwester · 2013-04 · Drupal Answers Stack Exchange · on “Complex Content Type, modules?”
Entity Reference [LINK] Provides a field type that can reference arbitrary entities: To your course content type add new field of entity ref type and refer videos content type. Add second field to your course ct and refer instructions content type. When you create new course you will be able to select instructions and videos Tutorial (simple) [LINK] [this video]
Recommends Watergate · 2017-03 · Drupal Answers Stack Exchange · on “merging content types”
This Daily Dose of Drupal video [this video] explains the use of the Entity reference module. Though it is from a few years ago, it's still applicable here.
Cites No Sssweat · 2018-06 · Drupal Answers Stack Exchange · on “Suggestions for storing private user content lists”
You could use ECK [LINK] and link it to the user using Entity Reference [LINK] . You'll need to some small custom coding to auto fill the entity reference field with the logged in user's id. Better yet, you can use Rules [LINK] for a no code solution to autofill the entity reference with the logged in user ID. Here is a video on ECK [LINK] and for entity reference [this video] .
Critical Marcandria · 2015-05 · Drupal Answers Stack Exchange · on “How can I organize my content using hierarchical taxonomy?”
In fact, this was EXACTLY what I aimed to do, I watched this video [this video] to have a glimpse, and I won't use taxonomy anymore for my website. Thanks a lot !