Repeating fields with multiple fields!?! Or any alternative!

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Last updated by Christian Cox 7 years, 3 months ago.

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August 13, 2017 at 5:11 pm #559343

Lykke Scavenius

Hi support 🙂

I am working on a site for a Blues café, they have concerts, so I have a new post type called "Concert", these concerts have custom fields, like "Band name", "musicians", "Prices", "Ticket info", "quotes" and lots more.

One thing is "Links", they would like to have unlimited links available. But I have been using 2 fields to create a single link, "link name" field (link text) and the "link/URL", so if I have 4 links avaiable, there are 8 fields.

But for "musicians" I am using a single text line, that can be repeated, this is what they want, but, is there any way to have a repeating field, where I could add both "Link text"(Sugaray facebook, Sugaray website etc.) and the link itself?

I think it's a little much to add a taxonomy with links, when they'll each only be used once.

Thanks for your time,
Best regards
Lykke

August 13, 2017 at 9:17 pm #559378

Christian Cox

Hi, we're actively working on a way to handle this quickly and effectively from within a single post. You can find more information about that progress on our latest blog post:
https://toolset.com/2017/08/preview-for-nested-repeating-fields-groups/

Until that work is finalized, the best way to handle repeating field groups is using a parent / child relationship as described here:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/creating-groups-of-repeating-fields-using-fields-tables/