I’m doing a book database. Obviously books have authors. These authors have not just written a book than I have on file.
How can I do to have in the form a drop down box with the author to select for the book by insert on database?
I thought to relate the archive books with that of the authors.
What is better to use taxonomies, relationship field types or repeater fields?
Thanks and sorry
I’m a bit new in ACF
Carlo Carlini
P.S.: I have PRO version
Hi @boxcarlo
I’m afraid I don’t understand your question, so forgive me if I’m wrong.
If you want to add the authors of the books, I believe the best thing to do is to use a custom post type for the authors and then you can use a post object field type to set the author. By using a custom post type, you can specify more fields and custom query in the future.
Also, if a book has more than one authors, you can set the “Select multiple values?” option on the post object field or use a repeater fields for the authors.
I hope this helps 🙂
Hi James and thanks
I apologize if I messed up
I would like to store books by choosing the author via a selection box.
This means, for example, that the same writer who wrote more than one book may appear on more than one record books.
Example:
Joseph Conrad wrote Lord Jim and The Shadow Line. If I put on file the book Lord Jim, as a writer I have to put Joseph Conrad.
The same thing must I do to store The Shadow Line.
But I think it is not necessary to enter another time Joseph Conrad into the book data. In fact, if I have the authors archive, Conrad is already registered and you only need to choose him from a selection box, but will have to be dynamically linked to the archive authors.
This is what I would do and would like to know how to do it using ACF.
I hope I have clarified my request.
Carlo
Hi @boxcarlo
Thanks for the explanation.
Like I said before, I think the best way to achieve this is to create a custom post type to store the authors. That way, it will be more flexible and easy to manage. You can use a plugin like Custom Post Type UI to create the custom post type. After that, just link the books to the authors by using the post object field type.
I hope this makes sense 🙂
