#269 - Better catalogue structuring - relationships

By Chris Graham
Added 8th Jun 2011, 7:53 AM
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Identifier	#269
Issue type	Feature request or suggestion
Title	Better catalogue structuring - relationships
Status	Completed
Handling member	Chris Graham
Addon	catalogues
Description	Allow creating links between catalogues, by extending the 'reference' catalogue field type. Implement by changing the fields API hooks to be able to handle multiple different actual field types that they can define dynamically.
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By Guest, By Guest, posted 30th Aug 2011, 8:56 PM

Would this make it possible to do something like Personal Galleries by creating another linked catalog of users?

By Guest posted 1st Sep 2011, 6:24 AM

Nope. This is purely about structure. To tie that into code logic or display logic is theoretically possible but to make it flexible enough, you basically end up recreating programming languages (same reason why 4GL databases/programming never took off) - so at that point writing PHP is better.

However your use case is covered in:
http://compo.sr/tracker/view.php?id=134
:)