Is it possible to creat/copy pods when editing a post/page?

  • Resolved easyman

    (@easyman)


    2 years, 10 months ago

    This is not a big issue, but I’m not sure if I found the best way.

    I’m building a website about music albums, use Pods to create links to Amazon or Spotify’s album page. It works great. But sometimes there are different versions of the album on Amazon. So I will set posts names like: amazon-url-1, amazon-url-2, amazon-url-3… sometimes it even has amazon-url-10. But here is the issue, in most time I only need 1 or 2 versions, so all the other field will be keeping empty. It seems pretty waste, just seems not right.

    Maybe it should work like, only one field (amazon-url-1) display on the page. But there will be a button beside it, I will click it when I need, then the (amazon-url-2) field created or display, then (amazon-url-3) ,(amazon-url-4) … I guess click-to-display is much easier than click-to-create?

    Not sure if it was because I hadn’t found a right way. Please advice.

    Thank you.`

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  • Plugin Author Jory Hogeveen

    (@keraweb)

    Hi @easyman

    You are talking about repeatable fields which will be available in Pods 2.9.
    Please be patient until then!

    Cheers, Jory

    Thread Starter easyman

    (@easyman)

    Hi Jory @keraweb

    Thank you for the quick response. I understand now and expect the new function.

    Now I’ll work by the old way. Maybe when the new version came out, there might be a doc about how to turn the old way (already exists pods) into the new function, in a smart way? Little advice might help a lot.

    Pods is a great plug-in I will advice to anyone using wordpress. Thank you for your people’s hard work!

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    Plugin Author Jory Hogeveen

    (@keraweb)

    Hi @easyman

    As it will still be metadata based I’m sure we can figure something out!
    The change is basically this;

    Current situation: Create meta fields based on the anticipated requirements:
    – amazon_url_1
    – amazon_url_2
    – amazon_url_3
    – amazon_url_4
    – etc.

    New situation: Create a single fields and let users add what they want
    – amaxon_urls
    All metadata records use the same meta key. So once this update is live you can run a query on the older fields to simply update the metakey.

    Cheers, Jory

    Thread Starter easyman

    (@easyman)

    Hi Jory @keraweb

    Thank you very much. That will be great. Very detailful and helpful. Expecting the new version.

    Have a nice day!

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