Adding Fields to Inline Entity Form Table

Inline Entity Form is a useful module for reference entities and being able to edit them in place.

Here’s what the edit form looks like out of the box for an unlimited value entity reference:

Often it’s helpful to provide additional information to your editors.

If you have a look at inline_entity_form.module you will find a function called theme_inline_entity_form_entity_table(). Within this you will see how this table is built, and how you can manipulate the form to add additional columns of information.

Here’s an example (mymodule.module) showing how I am able to add two additional fields to the table:

• sow = top level content type
• field_sow_er_lis = entity reference field in sow content type that references sowli nodes
• sowli = content type being referenced
• field_sowli_timeline = term reference field in sowli content type
• field_sowli_source = term reference field in sowli content type

Here’s the result: