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13 years 3 months ago #152522 by familyactivities
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Hi guys,
I am a little stuck and hoping for some suggestions here...

I have a fairly standard cb database and I understand how to add new fields and so on.

My problem is that I need to be able to add information on my member's children, without knowing how many children I will need to store info for. At this stage only the children's name and DOB is needed.

Ideally I would love a repeatable field (like in ZOO) but I am not sure if this is possible with CB fields.

The only thing I have been able to think of is maybe having custom fields for up to maybe 15 children and then letting the members fill out the appropriate number, but this is not a very professional solution.

I am sure there is a better way, can anyone give me some guidance?

Thank you!
Cam

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13 years 3 months ago #152530 by heyai
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While such a field type would be very useful I haven't seen one around.
Unless anyone proves me wrong the option you've suggested might be the best solution for now. In the CB configuration there is an option to hide empty fields (just in case you haven't seen it). This way the front end display won't look too unprofessional, at least.
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13 years 3 months ago #152605 by familyactivities
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Thanks for that heyai :)

I love my pool - all my best ideas come to Me there...

I just had a thought, not sure about implementation just yet... Could I use a text field to store the values in the following format:
"Child's name";"DOB","Child2";"DOB2",etc?
Then I would just add the PHP to render the values into a form... need to give it some more thought.
If anyone is reading this knows how to implement this and would like a quick contract, let me know :)

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13 years 2 months ago #153099 by familyactivities
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Does anyone have any suggestions at all?

There has to be a decent way of achieving this...

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13 years 2 months ago #153131 by krileon
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The only thing I have been able to think of is maybe having custom fields for up to maybe 15 children and then letting the members fill out the appropriate number, but this is not a very professional solution.

Something like this is not available. You'd need to create an entirely new fieldtype plugin. You could use our file fieldtype and ajax text fieldtype plugins as examples. Your best approach currently is to have multiple fields. You could format those fields to display better on the users profile however using substitutions inside of a delimiter field such as the following.
<table>
 <thead>
  <tr><th>Child</th><th>DOB</th></tr>
 </thead>
 <tbody>
  <tr><td>[cb_child1]</td><td>[cb_child1dob]</td></tr>
  <tr><td>[cb_child2]</td><td>[cb_child2dob]</td></tr>
  <tr><td>[cb_child3]</td><td>[cb_child3dob]</td></tr>
  <tr><td>[cb_child4]</td><td>[cb_child4dob]</td></tr>
  <tr><td>[cb_child5]</td><td>[cb_child5dob]</td></tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

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13 years 2 months ago #153219 by familyactivities
Replied by familyactivities on topic Re: Storing member's childrens info
Thank you very much for the help Kyle, it is most appreciated.
I will try both ideas and see which works better.

Probably the delimited field, as this field needs to be accessible for searching (not member search, activity searching based on kids ages..)

Thanks again,
Cam

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