The Drupal Content Construction Kit (CCK) is getting better EVERY DAY

Field Visibility per role : just a few days after I asked for field visibility based on user rules it was implemented and WORKS :-)

This means you can dynamically create content types and allow access for reading and changing based on the role a user has… this allows for internal fields and "priviledged" information stored in you data only visible to special people (users)

Nested Tables in nodes : the viewfields are CCK fields that can link to a view … this allows you to place nested html tables of data inside your nodes… very handy for all sorts of historic data – be it sales prices, last user access or maybe search engine stats…

But – what I'm still looking for is a very convenient batch update functionality for CCK nodes

Overall I feel it is REALLY time to start using the CCK heavily as there's so many complex features available and it seems it simply doesn't pay off anymore to implement custom nodes in Drupal…

Maybe it's good idea to create some video tutorials like this cool one for various cases…