Repeating Fields Belonging to Multiple Parents

Hi @mburtis

Sorry for the delay, just noticed your topic.

I am afraid that an item in a repeating field can’t be associated with multiple parents.

If I understand it correctly, to associate a single course with multiple contracts, we don’t need a repeater field. You can achieve it by using the Pods’ Relationship field:
1. create Course as a custom post type
2. create Contract as a custom post type
3. In the Contract pod, add a relationship field named “Course” and relate it to Post Type Course

However, that is under the assumption that each Contract could only have one course. If you want a Contract to have multiple shared courses, the repeater field can play a role. From Step 3, you can change it to
3. Create an Advanced Content Types named it something like Associated Course. In its pod, add a relationship field named “Course” and relate it to Post Type – Course
4. In the Contract pod, add a Repeater Field and link it up with the Associated Course table

In this way, you only need to create a Course once and share it with multiple Contracts, whilst a Contract can have multiple Courses.

Hope it helps.

Thanks for using the plugin.

@mburtis Actually, Pods’ Relationship field provides multiple select. You can use it as a soluction if it is appropriate.

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by Coding Panda.