Content Types

In the previous set of exercises we built all the components our movie site needs. Now we are going to build the content types which will provide the data to feed the components.

Content models

Below you will see the content models for Movie and Landing Page content types. Using the step by step instructions at the bottom of this page, create both content types using the fields details outlined in the respective content model tables.

Movie content type

Label	Type	Machine name	Allowed # values
Synopsis	Text (formatted, long, with summary)	body	Limited 1
Cover Image	Image	field_cover_image	Limited 1
Avg. viewer rating	List (Integer)	field_average_viewer_rating	Limited 1
Genre	Entity Reference	field_genre	Unlimited
MPAA Rating	List (Text)	field_mpaa_rating	Limited 1
Promo Sentence	Text	field_promo_sentence	Limited 1

Average Viewer Rating allowed values

1|1 Star
2|2 Stars
3|3 Stars
4|4 Stars
5|5 Stars

Make 3 Stars the default value.

Genre settings

Entity to reference	Referenced type
Taxonomy term	Genre vocabulary

MPAA Rating allowed values

G|G
PG|PG
PG-13|PG-13
R|R
NC-17|NC-17

Make PG the default value.

Landing Page content type