[Resolved] Comedy Club parent child questions

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[jerry]

Hello

(Sorry for the long post. I've got a dev site up and I am testing ideas.)

I have a comedy club client, their shows normally follow this pattern with the same comic:

Friday 8pm-
Friday 10:30p
Saturday 8pm
Saturday 10:30p

Sometimes they add a show for another comic on Saturday 5:30pm.

So, I think my Post Type structure would be:

Shows (I'd enter shows here for the week)
--> Comic (from drop down of comics)
--> Show Date Time (add new)
--> Show Date Time (add new)
--> Show Date Time (add new)

Show Date Time (Parent: Show, Comic?) (I'd hide this from admin menu, I think)
- Date/Time
- Tix URL
-->comic

Comic (Parent: Show, Child: Show Date Time) - Can belong to many shows.
- Bio
- URL

(I may also at a Venue to this, but, I assume that will work like comics)

I want to display:

- All Shows by date (or range)
-- Should I put a start and end date on Shows?
- All Show Date Time (so, we can see the odd Saturday 5:30pm show)
- All Comics
- Next show on website front page (and/or all shows for that day or week grouped by comic)

Questions:
- When I go to add show, I am able to add showdates as I want. But, I don't get a comic drop down, I get Add new comic. ( realize the show dates have a comic, but, I want to attach a comic to the show too)
- Are my Post Relationship (Parent / Child) assumptions right? I did see this, but, it doesn't seem link our workflow: https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/many-to-many-post-relationship/

TIA, Jerry

[Luo Yang]

Dear　Jerry,

I suggest you setup many-to-many relationships between post types "Venue" and "Comic"
For example:
Parent post types: "Venue" and "Comic"
child post type: "Show"
in post type: "Show", add the custom date-time field "Show Date Time"

See our document:
Creating and Displaying Many-to-Many Post Relationships
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/many-to-many-post-relationship/

[jerry]

I don't have a venue CPT yet, it's planned for the future once I figure the rest out.

My issue is between shows and comics. I don't have a comic drop down, only enter a new comic.

Thanks, Jerry

[Luo Yang]

If you do not have venue CPT yet, you can create one.

As I suggest above, please try to setup the post types as many-to-many relationships:
Parent post types: "Venue" and "Comic"
child post type: "Show"
in post type: "Show", add the custom date-time field "Show Date Time"

See below test site:
hidden link
user/pass: xgren/111111

It is a single Venue post, in section "Post Relationship", you can add child show posts with custom date field and related Comic post.

Hope it help