Advice on using repeater fields for complex requirement

  • I have a page that lists boat schedules. I’ve used ACF repeater field with the following sub fields.

    departure date | return date | excursion

    This has been working fine and I’ve the different prices for each excursion in a separate table (based on date ranges – high season, low season)

    This works but I would prefer to include the prices within each row so users can easily see the pricing without having to figure it out for themselves.

    departure date | return date | excursion | cabin1 price | cabin 2 price

    Individual boats can have various cabin types, and number of cabin types, so I’ve added a further sub field (repeater with 2 sub fields = cabin type, cabin price)

    Is this the best way? It feels like I have to a lot of data entry putting in (sometimes the same) cabin information and price for every row. An average of 52 times for each yearly schedule.

    I’ve often found in the past that I have to update/change my set-up as I learn better ways of doing things. On this occasion, because there is potentially a lot of data entry, I thought it best to research the best way of doing it before moving too far forward.

    Any help and advice would be much appreciated.

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  • If I understand it correctly, then your Fields “Cabin Type”, “Cabin 1 Price”, “Cabin 2 Price” will have the same content in each repeater loop?

    So it doesn’t make much sense to enter them again and again in each row.

    Did you know that you can create an acf options page where you could define one repeater for Cabin Types, one for Cabin Prices and link this repeater to a select field within your excursion table?

    Please see this great article: Dynamically populate a select field’s choices
    Unfortunately the ACF website is currently not available, but you can read it with google cache

    I hope this will help you.

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