CCK Content Type Creation Best Practices

There are several things to keep in mind when designing CCK content types:

There are several benefits to CCK field types sharing a namespace. One benefit is simulated inheritance of a parent content type. For example, if both the manager and designer content types share a salary field, a view could easily be created that shows the salaries of all designers and managers. Similarly, queries can be written to select all nodes that have an end_date field greater than a certain date.

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