Managing and reporting linked table (Pod) data

Hi @mygrove

This doesn’t sound like a case where such a link table is required.
From what I understand the Person and Place pods don’t really have a connection besides being part of the appointment.

Other than that I’m not really understanding your actual question. Could you let me know what isn’t working?

For tutorials I think it’s best if you watch our introduction videos:
– https://docs.pods.io/videos/grow-beyond-posts-pages-introduction-pods-framework/
– https://docs.pods.io/videos/plan-before-you-build-information-architecture-content-strategy/
– https://docs.pods.io/videos/build-anything-with-pods-hands-on-workshop-using-the-pods-framework/

Cheers, Jory

Hi,

There is a many-to-many relationship between People and Places, but each of the links needs to hold information relating to that specific link i.e. the start_date and end_date.

Yes, you can link People and Places many-to-many but then there is nowhere to hold that additional information.

Ultimately I want to be able to query People and show all the Places associated with them with the data from the Appointment. Also to be able to do the reverse and query all the Places and show all People that have ever been linked to that Place (in start_date order!)

Thanks.

Hi @mygrove

Still, I don’t really read a question..
If your question is about how to create a link table then this would be a sparate Pod with only the link-specific fields, like Place, start_date and end_date for example.
This could be an Advanced Content Type (see components, so these links are stored in a separate table) or a private Custom Post Type.

Cheers, Jory

I am happy with the structure now.

What I cannot find is how to get fields from the Places pod into a Pod Template to use in the Person pod.

The fields appear in the Pod Reference list when configuring the template, but they are blank when viewing actual Person post.

The two link fields are set up bidirectional in each Pod.

Thanks

Hi @mygrove

What I cannot find is how to get fields from the Places pod into a Pod Template to use in the Person pod.

Have you checked our tutorial video’s?

If the Places are related to the Person you should be able to do:

[each related_places_field_name]
{@post_title}
{@places_field_name}
etc.
[each]

Cheers, Jory

That’s it. Thanks.

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