Sorry, I was having a hard time finding the right title. I'm stuck.
In a perfect world, this is what I need and I don't know how to do it or if it can be done or if it should be a feature.
Imagine for a moment that you use Showcase to feature a dance workout. Then imagine that you feature several of them, each with say 50 different 'moves' taken from a library of 1000 moves. If you don't want to picture dance, imagine a car with limitless accessory options.
I would like to be able to create these unique dance workouts and somehow have each workout be able to 'pull' a set of custom moves from a hierarchical set of moves.
As I see it, for now, I could create a custom field with 1000 checkboxes (if Showcase/Xenforo would even support that) and then for each workout I would check off the relevant moves. Seems nightmarish.
So what's the solution? In the world of relational databases this would be simple, obviously. I could create one file/stack for the workouts and another with the moves which could be subdivided into categories (just for illustration purposes say: leg moves, arm moves, full body moves, etc...). I would create Dance Workout 1 and assign 45 moves to it and voila. In Showcase, not so easy. Or is it. Is there a way to develop a more complex custom field system that allows us to assign multiple, hierarchical features?
Going to have a whiskey now, i think I need it ;-)
In a perfect world, this is what I need and I don't know how to do it or if it can be done or if it should be a feature.
Imagine for a moment that you use Showcase to feature a dance workout. Then imagine that you feature several of them, each with say 50 different 'moves' taken from a library of 1000 moves. If you don't want to picture dance, imagine a car with limitless accessory options.
I would like to be able to create these unique dance workouts and somehow have each workout be able to 'pull' a set of custom moves from a hierarchical set of moves.
As I see it, for now, I could create a custom field with 1000 checkboxes (if Showcase/Xenforo would even support that) and then for each workout I would check off the relevant moves. Seems nightmarish.
So what's the solution? In the world of relational databases this would be simple, obviously. I could create one file/stack for the workouts and another with the moves which could be subdivided into categories (just for illustration purposes say: leg moves, arm moves, full body moves, etc...). I would create Dance Workout 1 and assign 45 moves to it and voila. In Showcase, not so easy. Or is it. Is there a way to develop a more complex custom field system that allows us to assign multiple, hierarchical features?
Going to have a whiskey now, i think I need it ;-)