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Create and attach a compound

Enable Compound Field and use an account allowed to administer compounds, content types and fields. Choose unused machine names for this example.

Define Conference session

  1. Open Structure → Compound fields → Add compound field.
  2. Enter Conference session, machine name session, and select Add new compound field.
  3. On Manage fields, select Create a new field. Add these plain text string fields:
Label Machine-name suffix Allowed number of values
Session title title 1
Topics topics 3
Internal note note 1, optional

Field UI adds the field_ prefix to each suffix.

Attach it to Conference

  1. Create a Conference content type.
  2. Open Structure → Content types → Conference → Manage fields.
  3. Select Create a new field → Compound field → Conference session.
  4. Label it Sessions, field name field_sessions, and allow Unlimited values.
  5. Save. Each session can now hold up to three topics.

Add conference sessions.