If you mean that you want asset A to have custom fields B,C,D and asset B to have custom fields E,F,G, then the answer is no: that defeats much of the purpose of the plugin. The goal is to normalize data definitions, i.e. standardize the custom fields so that a given data type (e.g. “asset” or “property” or “portfolio”) always has the same number and type of fields. You run into trouble when one instance of a record has one set of fields and another instance of a record has a different set of fields. Although I can see some reasons for doing this (there is a feature request for this already I believe), operating a site like that does cause a lot of problems when it comes to maintenance and reporting.
The best workaround I could recommend would be to add a single “Notes” field and add your various notes there. Hope that helps.
Hi fireproofsocks,
thanks for your reply, appreciate that you take on your time.
this is not what i mean.
a portfolio is a list of assets.
so in my portfolio i want to be able to manage a kind of table of assets belonging to this portfolio.
So i’m looking to do something like that in the portoflio custom post type from a admin point of view :
Assets table
Col 1 | Col 2 | Col 3
Asset name picked up in all the assets list | Acquisition date | Invested Amount
with the ability to add / delete row of data
From the frontend point of view, we want to be able to display freely this table.
Is it more clear maybe ?
Thanks for clarifying. It sounds like you could define 2 post-types: assets and portfolios. You need a repeatable relation custom field attached to the portfolio where you can select 1 or more assets for that field. In the manager, it’s not a table (by default), it’s just a sortable list, but on the front-end you can format it like a table.
You can customize the manager HTML to make it look like a table, but that’s just aesthetic — but you can customize the templates used so that the manager interface looks the way you want and displays the custom fields you want for each selection. See https://code.google.com/p/wordpress-custom-content-type-manager/wiki/CustomizingManagerHTML
Would that work?
ok i see, i had a look to the video and i get the idea on how to customize thos HTML customs fields.
Thanks for this.
