[Resolved] Clarification on Repeating Fields Groups

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[culturaI]

Hello and thanks again for this plugin, more i use and more i like it, i plan to use for all my projects. Now with the questions:

In my site i have custom post type contacts, every contact can attend to 1 or more courses (usually 1 to 5). We'll plan to have 10.000-30.000 contacts.

Instinctively i was thinking to use method of advanced custom field and add repeater fields (course type, level, date, ecc...)

I read also some post on this forum, and some article from toolset documentation on group fields (many to many relationship or one to many)

I'm a little confused on options and my question is:
in my case what is the correct option i should use with toolset (especially from database point of view)?

Thanks!

[Luo Yang]

Dear CulturaI,

It depends on your settings.

I assume we are talking about this case:
Two custom post types:
- contacts
- courses
One "courses" post can connect with multiple "contacts" posts
One "contacts" post can connect with multiple "courses" posts
If it is, I suggest you try to setup many-to-many relationship between custom post types:
- contacts
- courses
see our document:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/many-to-many-post-relationship/

[culturaI]

Hello Luo and thanks for your response, you have understood exactly my situation.

Also I thought about many to many relationships.

With 20.000-30.000 contacts, every contact between 1-5 courses and a good hosting company i have to expect good performances?

[Luo Yang]

I don't think it will conduct performance problem, and in the beta version of Types plugin, we introduced the enhanced many-to-many relationship settings, see our blog post:
https://toolset.com/2017/12/types-and-views-betas-with-many-to-many-relationships/

[culturaI]

Thanks Luo the video in beta version seem to be made for my case.

Seem great and i would try this new version, i read that production (i think it means stable) version should to be ready by end of this month?

[Luo Yang]

No, I don't think the stable version will be released in this month, it might take more time, and our developers are working on it, I suggest you subscribe to our blog to get the updated news:
https://toolset.com/blog/

[culturaI]

It is safe to use this beta version on production site? I have no post atm so i don't have to save datas

[Luo Yang]

No, it is not recommended to use beta version plugins in a production site, but you can use the latest stable version of Types & Views plugin in your production site, we will provide easy method to upgrade the many-to-many relationship to the new many-to-many relationship.

[culturaI]

Very good i understood, thanks!

[Luo Yang]

You are welcome