Toolset with GD questions

Most of these questions are related to customization, which is outside of what we can help with in the forum here. Most of what I see below needs testing, and probably ample developer support to examine the interactions between GD and Toolset.

1)–GD has the default Places CPT, which Toolset Types recognizes. Does it matter whether I put the Places Taxonomies/Categories (& their Subcategories, and respective Fields/Terms/Values)—which Toolset can manipulate in 1-to-many and many-to-many relationships– into GD, or would it be best to place them into Toolset?

It would not be recommended to alter the included taxonomies or their features, but pointing to taxonomies or values from Toolset should not cause any issues.

2)–is it a requirement to use the default Places CPT for GD to function properly, or could I delete that? (I don’t see any need to make a decision to delete Places at this point, just wondering if that’s a possibility to do, for less straddling of data/more optimal organization, between GD and Toolset).

Places cannot be deleted, but, if there are no listings in the “Places CPT” then it will not show up in the search field or other GD pages, and a different CPT with a different name can be used.

3)–I plan to use the Toolset Views (logic) to create the 1-to-many, and many-to-many, relationships, and their complex nested queries, between a single CPT’s multiple Taxonomies (& their Fields/Terms/Values), as well as complex queries between multiple CPTs’ Taxonomies (Fields/Terms/Values). Is that compatible with GD?

Unknown, and would need testing.

4)–If I manipulate a theme with Toolset’s Layouts plugin (which adds wireframing and layout ‘cells’ where one can place templates with Taxonomy or CPT fields/values), is there any issue with compatibility with GD, or GD’s optimized database architecture?

This would have to be tested and then addressed on a case by case basis.

5)–can I use GD’s “GD Framework” theme with Toolset’s Layout wireframing/cells?

This has not been tested, but we look forward to hearing about it.

6)–I read somewhere that you will possibly be discontinuing the less popular GD themes, rather than updating them to v2. Is GD Framework still going to be updated to v2?

The focus now is on the plugin, and there are so many improvements in V2 that many of the features of themes can now be accomplished with V2 templates, widgets and shortcodes. In essence we are looking forward to less reliance on theme functions.

Overall I would recommend keeping your Toolset strategy for relationships to start with a firm foundation as a relationship ‘pointing to’ GD listings so as to avoid the complexity of deeper integration.

Exactly that, yes.