title: Drupal: Content in blocks from node_reference fields?
body: <p>After only a few weeks of working with Drupal I've come up with a recurring problem, which I don't really have an optimal solution to, so I'm hoping that someone here might be able to give some best practice pointers.</p>
  
  <p>What I have is a <code>region</code> inside my node.tpl.php, which is populated with blocks that display content from two different <code>CCK</code> fields of the type <code>node_reference</code>. This works fine when displaying a single node. The problem appears when I need to use a <code>view</code>.</p>
  
  <p>For example, lets say I have a news listing, and a single news item view. When I display the single news item I can use the news node <code>node_reference</code> field to reference whatever material I would like to have in my sidebar, but when on the news listing view I would like to reference nodes separately. What would be the best practice to solve this?</p>
  
  <p>I'm having a few ideas, but none seem like the logical choice, how would you do?</p>