[Resolved] Guidance for when to use categories vs one to many relationship

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[richardB-13]

Tell us what you are trying to do?

I am trying to create a dog show site. There are several organizations for example American Kennel Club and United Kennel Club. Each organization has a different breed list. Around 350 different breeds. I am looking for guidance on if this could\should be done with categories or should each breed list be a custom post type with a one to many relationship.

Is there any documentation that you are following?
various tutorials and videos from toolset and elementor.

Is there a similar example that we can see?
Analogy would be products and product categories from two different vendors.

What is the link to your site?
trial.myk9t.com

[Shane]

Hi Richard,

Thank you for contacting our support forum.

Personally I would recommend using the categories as it provides an archive for you to sort your items. Lets say you have 3 Breeds.

Breed A, Breed B, Breed C

If this here was a category or taxonomy then when you click on Breed A, it will automatically list all the Breed A dogs.

Please let me know if this helps.
Thanks,
Shane

[richardB-13]

Thanks Shane...

There will be at least 700 breeds to start, 350 from each organization. Do you see any problems possibly performance issues with having this many categories?

Will I be able to create a front-end form to add a new dog and select the breed with Toolset forms?

Can you point me to some tutorials or examples of this type of form?

Thanks,

Richard

[Shane]

Hi Richard,

While I don't have an example to show you.

I don't foresee any performance issues with this.

Yes you will be able to create a frontend form to do this.

I do recommend that you take a look at our getting started guide.
https://toolset.com/documentation/getting-started-with-toolset/

Please let me know if this helps.

Thanks,
Shane

[richardB-13]

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!