[Gelöst] How to map fields from other plugins to Toolset?

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[NickC8880]

*Tell us what you are trying to do?*
I have started building a website based on the BuddyBoss platform, which has a lot of great social networking functionality built in, as well as a new integrated mobile app. However, it is fairly complicated for non-coders to customize it, so I'm hoping to use Toolset for this.

However, I'm having trouble mapping BuddyBoss' fields to Toolset in order to populate them from Toolset Forms, display them with Views etc... I have installed Pods, and, at a glance, it seems to be able to show many of the relevant database tables in the "Extend Existing" feature (I have attached screenshots of all of the tables in phpmyadmin). Does something like this exist for Toolset? Is there a workaround - using Pods as an intermediary?

If I can get Toolset to have access to all of the data fields, I will likely build new pages/views with Toolset to both complement and replace the built-in ones.

*Is there any documentation that you are following?*
BuddyBoss has developer documentation, but it is not clear to me how to solve this problem. versteckter Link

*Is there a similar example that we can see?*
Not that I know of. You could look at the Pods plugin in the staging site below to see the

What is the link to your site?
I have created a staging site here: versteckter Link
Please let me know if I should be posting the credentials in this ticket or in a more private manner.

Thanks very much!

[Christian Cox]

Hi, please note that this is a public forum, so you should only share login credentials in the private reply fields available when creating a ticket or when activated by a support team member. Normally when a support team member replies to your comments, he or she can activate private reply fields for your next reply. I have made your previous reply private for your security since it contained login information. I just wanted to inform you of the normal procedure for future reference.

However, I'm having trouble mapping BuddyBoss' fields to Toolset in order to populate them from Toolset Forms, display them with Views etc.
As far as 3rd-party proprietary tables, Toolset does not provide any integration features for accessing 3rd-party data in proprietary tables. Usually Toolset plugins function within the standard WordPress tables like posts, postmeta, users, usermeta, terms, and termmeta. There are a few proprietary tables created by Toolset as well. Forms, Views, and Content Templates, for example, allow you to display and manage data for standard custom post types from the posts table and custom fields in the postmeta table, but are incompatible with 3rd-party database tables and non-standard post types. Normally you would extend access to hidden fields in postmeta in Toolset > Settings > Front-end Content, in the "Hidden custom fields" section. That feature can help you display hidden 3rd-party custom fields from the postmeta table, but not from proprietary 3rd-party database tables. Non-standard post types are not easily exposed to the Views, Content Templates, and Forms systems. Normally displaying or managing those posts and fields will require custom programming and/or shortcodes from the 3rd-party system, and falls outside the scope of support offered here in the forums.

[NickC8880]

Thanks! Sorry for the late reply - I didn't receive any email notifications for your response! Thanks for making it clear how the private replies work as well as explaining how Toolset maps the various tables and fields. I'll explore some more and figure out how to implement what I'm aiming for. I'll open another ticket if/when I have specific questions.