Related Post Settings- How To Relate to Specific Listing(s)?

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September 25, 2014 at 4:36 am #16481

eatlocalgrown
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Hi Guys-

I’d like to be able to use the related post settings to show specific listings as follows-

I have listings for Farms, Farmers Markets and Grocery Stores.

I’d like to let the Farms link themselves to the GD listings of the Farmers Markets and Grocery Stores that buy their products (and have those listings show in the Related Listing tab).

Additionally, I’d like for the Farmers Markets and Grocery Stores to be able to show the Farms that they buy from.

What is the best way to accomplish this? Can it be done with tags? Custom Fields?

I’m open to suggestions.

Thanks.

September 25, 2014 at 1:54 pm #16513

Simone
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Hello, I’d suggest you to link them with tags, you can set this option in GeoDirectory – Design – Detail and at the bottom you will find the “Relate to” dropdown (options are Categories or Tags)

September 25, 2014 at 3:11 pm #16531

eatlocalgrown
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Hi Simone-

Thanks for the quick response.

I’d like to set this up so that the listing owners can manage the linking by themselves. I’m looking for ideas or best practices to put a system like that in place. Can you provide some additional direction or suggest a link to something in the documentation that expands on this concept?

September 25, 2014 at 3:25 pm #16533

Simone
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Well you should find the right “tag” to link the listings you want to be related, but this tag should be manually entered by the owners, or you can edit their listing and add it by yourself. Unfortunately there is not a right option to make this like a “checkbox” or similar

September 25, 2014 at 4:30 pm #16539

eatlocalgrown
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Okay, got it.

I think letting the listing owners manage their own tags for this purpose would become unwieldy and unmanageable very quickly. 🙁

Perhaps a better approach would be to extend the functionality of the related post system to be able to use the listing’s Title Field to make connections? If it’s not a huge amount of work I would be willing to commission you (or a developer you work with and trust) to customize this.

Would this functionality be a valuable addition to the core? Not sure if other users would find this useful or not but it provides a necessary competitive edge for our application.

September 25, 2014 at 4:33 pm #16540

Simone
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You can either submit this in the Feature system (here) or add your request in the Jobs Thread (here)

September 25, 2014 at 4:33 pm #16541

thebirdiemachine
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September 25, 2014 at 10:18 pm #16620

Guust
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Thinking outside the box:

Tell your farmers to favorite their sellers and add a link to that list.
Have a look here:
http://goldroo.net/attractions/trades/fred-the-farmer/
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