Creating a user hierarchy

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Tagged: Access plugin, Custom roles, Types plugin, Views plugin

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Last updated by Luo Yang 6 years, 4 months ago.

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November 21, 2017 at 11:38 pm #591850

nelsonT-2

Hi,

We have a LMS site with students and instructors. Instructors can see and modify their courses, but also see and manage their students...

We've been asked something similar: create a "coach" category that, unlike instructors, wouldn't manage courses, BUT could coach few students to suggest them some courses, see their evolution (already in the theme) and of course their students' details...

I thought it would be fairly easy with Toolset, but finally it's not as easy as I thought... I created a post type "Coach", but can't add users to it... I could just create a user type "Coach" with Access, but how could they manage (and see) the students that they follow/coach, follow their progress, etc...?

Is that something possible with Toolset? Don't know if I should start from scratch or just take the already existing Instructors category and modify it (P.S. it wasn't created by Toolset, but was already implemented in the theme)...

November 22, 2017 at 8:14 am #591918

Luo Yang

Dear Nelson,

There isn't exited similar system within Toolset, you will need to setup it from scratch, here are my suggestions:
1) You can setup three custom post types "coach", "Student", the post author is different wordpress user
So each user can manage their own "coach" or "Student" post with Access plugin:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/setting-access-control/

2) Setup many-to-many relationship between post types "coach" and "Student"
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/many-to-many-post-relationship/
Then you will be able to relate each "coach" post to other "Student" posts

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