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If this is in the wrong section my apologies.

I’m trying to set up a page/s to list details of various costs of my trips and at the moment I’m grappling with how to set it up.

This is my current thought.

I’m setting up four different weblogs with custom entry fields:

Accommodation - Hotel Name - Town - Room Type - Cost (etc.)
Food & Drink - Restaurant - Town - Food - Cost
Transport - Type - Hours - Cost - times
Miscellaneous- Name - Town - Cost

Now to control the info I am setting up Custom Categories for it as well.  So for my next trip that would be something like:

Thailand 2007
- Bangkok
- Chang Mai
- Ko Chang
- Tak

So another words listing the Country I’m going to as the Parent and then the individual places as child categories under that.

So on the initial page of costs they will just see general info all mixed up under the major headings of Accommodation, Food, Transport etc. However what I’m hoping by using the categories that if for example they just want to know what it cost in say Chang Mai they could click on that category and it will pull up all the info on that one place.

Now I think, from my understanding that this should work, other than being fiddly and having to continually update the Category list while I’m overseas (since other than the arrival and exit point I do not know where I am going) and that the category list is going to get massive on extended trips.

So ideas?  am I going about this ass backwards?  work / will not work?

Edit: the other thing I’m thinking of is to reverse it (if that makes sense)since that would create less work while I’m OS (I think) but if I did it in reverse I’m not quite clear how I could pull the info from the various places together.

As you mention, I think if places are categories, it could get out of hand.
I don’t have an immediate answer/recommendation but I would definetly be off studying “related” and “reverse related” entries.

Thanks for the response PXLated.  I’ve read through the “related” and “reverse related” a couple of times and yes if I can get my head around the ‘how’ part that might hold part of/the answer.

I think I am going to try print off the entire weblog section in the Doc’s and read through it at work toady if I get any down time.

Think I’ll scrap my first idea as it will get too unwieldy.

Ah, back at square one again!

I’m still trying to get my head around the whole “related” / “reverse related” entries thing and am about to go read through the Doc’s again but thought I’d ask.

If I create a custom field in the weblogs called City/Town is it possible then to pull all entries that say have Chang Mai written in that field from all 4 weblogs onto one page?

If that was possible that would get rid of the unbearably long category list, er but then I guess I would have to work out how the navigation would work

Don’t mind me just thinking aloud….