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How would I add custom lists to my content type?

April 24, 2011 4:28pm

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  • #1 / Apr 24, 2011 4:28pm

    three80

    15 posts

    Is there any way to have a lookup table type of functionality for EE posts?

    I want to make a site that lists songs and albums.  For each post, I would need the artist and genre. Is there any way in EE to make these separate, stand alone lists that would then show up as drop down lists when I’m creating a post?  Also, I would need users to be able to see a list of artists and genres.

    If I were building an app from scratch, I would make separate tables for each of these, with data entry forms, then link them with one-to-many relationships to the posts.  So, they’d just be standard lookup tables.

  • #2 / Apr 24, 2011 4:41pm

    giusi

    94 posts

  • #3 / Apr 25, 2011 5:12am

    John Henry Donovan

    12339 posts

    three80,

    Related entries would hep but you can also use that along with categories.
    The native relationship is only one to one but if you needed one to many then take a look at Playa

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