Need help with master/detail design

This may be slightly different, but I have been trying to do the same kind of thing using “Advanced Content Type”. Evidently PODS doesn’t support relationships between “external” tables, only between core WP entities. No matter what I do I get “No Related Fields Found”.
I ran across something related to this subject at the link below. It’s a couple of years old. The author mentions “the example code below“, but there’s nothing there. Maybe he forgot to post it.

https://pods.io/tutorials/get-values-from-a-custom-relationship-field/

It looks as if this has been a known limitation for some time (years?)
Good luck.

Thanks for the reply. BTW, in your linked article I *do* see the code for ACTs right at the bottom.

One thing that kind of confuses me in general is that these tutorials are showing PHP code. I thought the point of PODS was that you didn’t have to break open your PHP editor and start writing code. I’m really surprised this is proving so hard to find. Maybe it’s a harder thing to create a plug-in for than I realize (having never written a WordPress plu-gin).

You can activate Advanced Relationships and have access to create relationships to any tables within the SAME database as your WordPress installation. That’s the primary restriction in there.

@tmhudg for a very basic overview of creating Pods and displaying information without using code, OSTraining created an 11 part series on Using Pods and Displaying information.

https://pods.io/2015/08/19/eleven-part-video-series-from-ostraining-com-on-pods-is-now-free/

Depending on what you’re trying to create and the complexity of it, yes, you may have to write some PHP code. We’re primarily a custom content management framework, but we are not a ‘visual builder’. Creating incredibly complex applications takes ‘complex’ solutions and you may have to resort to code for certain things. However between Pods and our Pods Templates and the Pods Form Shortcodes (for creating front-end input forms), you could reasonably build a basic web application like you mention without using PHP.

@devuser1 your answer unfortunately points folks in a direction you really don’t want to go, because Advanced Content Types or ACT’s are designed to be used in incredibly complicated situations and make very little use of WordPress’s built in automatic displays and back-end admin screens. You should probably check out the above tutorial as well and stay away from ACTs unless you have a business case reason for using an external database from WordPress.

Thanks for the pointer to the videos – they were helpful to fill in some gaps in general PODS knowledge for me.

Depending on what you’re trying to create and the complexity of it, yes, you may have to write some PHP code. We’re primarily a custom content management framework, but we are not a ‘visual builder’. Creating incredibly complex applications takes ‘complex’ solutions and you may have to resort to code for certain things. However between Pods and our Pods Templates and the Pods Form Shortcodes (for creating front-end input forms), you could reasonably build a basic web application like you mention without using PHP.

Okay, this is the information I’m looking for. Is there a walkthrough of building something like this? Even if I have to write a little PHP. Just looking for something to give some direction on this specific task.

We don’t have specific walkthroughs for items like that (we don’t have the resources unfortunately), but since our plugin is free, you can dig into and start playing around with it and get a better feel for Pods. Our support is always available on our Slack Chat channel at https://pods.io/forums/chat/ for specific questions or to point you in the right direction once you start digging into your project.