Hello,
I'm working on a site with 2 postypes ("membres" and "sports").
I want to link membres to several sports.
So I created a relationship (many to many) between membres and sports.
Now, I want to create a post form to create (or modify) a membre and inside, I need to insert the possibility for a membre to choose one or several sports.
Next point is that if possible, I would like the choice of the sport to be like checkboxes and not select (as I have more than 50 different sports listed and would like to be able to arrange the field with some CSS.
Can you help moving forward on this please.
Regards
Pat
This is not possible within a Post Form, you will need to create a Relationship Form to connect posts in a many to many relationship
https://toolset.com/documentation/post-relationships/how-to-build-front-end-forms-for-connecting-posts/
It is also not possible to have the selectors as checkboxes, but only as Select Field
This is because you can connect only ONE post to ANOTHER post a time, even if you can repeat that and hence connect many posts to many posts, you can not connect many posts to many posts in "one hit" on one form, but will need to submit that form repeatedly.
I suggest to submit a (or several) feature request for what you outline here https://toolset.com/home/contact-us/suggest-a-new-feature-for-toolset/, which will be evaluated directly by the Product Manager and eventually can be considered for implementation.
I did in past elaborate on a possible custom solution but this is not what we suggest, given the feature should be instead implemented in Toolset directly (according to how many people request it):
https://toolset.com/forums/topic/bulk-editing-relationships-in-the-new-toolset-3-format/#post-907746
We cannot assist this kind of customizations in the forum, unfortunately.
Please let me know if further clarification or other information is required for you to proceed.
Hi Beda,
Thanks for the clarification.
So, I suppose I need to move forward to another solution.
I can see 2 ways :
1. Use taxonomy in order to define the sport related to a membre
2. Use a checkboxes custom field
I'm more in favor of the taxonomy that will allow a better flexibility for filtering options (this is my opinion?).
Any advice on this, especially on how to present the taxonomy choice in the Cred form as checkboxes?
Regards
Pat
You can easily add a Set of (existing) Taxonomies as checkboxes to a Toolset Form, actually you can choose from select, multi select and checkboxes.
See also this DOC in regard:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/cred-shortcodes/#cred_field
About Filtering, and usage of the Taxonomy versus Field, I agree that this should be a taxonomy just and mainly because it is a "categorizing" subject (not additional information but "groups").
Hence taxonomies are really by definition the best to use to categorize sports.
I suggest thou, set up both very quickly on a staging/testing site, so you can learn about each advantage and disadvantage in light of the needs of your project.
Also, you can use the discover-wp.com site (or Download those sites with Framework Installer), to see how we did similar projects (it does not use sports, but the main idea is similar):
https://discover-wp.com/site-templates/
I'd have a look at this site particularly: https://discover-wp.com/site-types/bootstrap-estate-layouts/
Please let me know if you need further details or examples.
Hi Beda,
I have moved forward with taxonomies (with 2 additional custom field), but it's possible to retrieve them quite easily inside Views.
Thanks for your return.
Regards
Pat
