Group of groups? Subgroup?

  • Resolved mungbean

    (@mungbean)


    7 years, 2 months ago

    I would like to be able to track the availability of desk space in a building. So potentially three elements to this – building, room, desk.

    I think Groups might be the right starting point. The Group name would the Building name, and within the Building group, a number of Room sub groups, and finally within a Room, one or more Desk content types.

    The Building parent group would also manage it’s own users, who would have access to the Rooms and Desks in that group.

    Is this doable with Groups? Can there be group-of-group, child groups, or subgroups?

    Or is there a better a way

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author Kento

    (@proaktion)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    What you envision is really a booking system. As a starting point, have a look at https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-bookings/ – if you map your desks to resources you can book, you have one part of the solution. I’m not sure if you even would benefit from using Groups for this case, but we have an integration https://woocommerce.com/products/groups-woocommerce/ that might come in handy if you later need to enable access to groups based on products (bookings) purchased.

    Cheers

    Thread Starter mungbean

    (@mungbean)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks for the reply Kento.

    I will investigate Woocommerce Booking, thanks for the suggestion. I do plan to have billing in the future, likely based on per instance of a user and post type within a Group.

    To your other point regarding this plugin, I should have elaborated more. I feel Groups would make the most sense from a data structure viewpoint because the data mapping of a Building to a Group, the Rooms to a Subgroup of the Group, and finally Desks being a Group-specific post type. Finally only users within a Group could interact with the Desks in the group.

    Hence my original reasoning for this support post, in regards to whether this plugin supports subgroups within a Group. Does it?

    Is Groups overkill for this use case? Or is there a better way with WP, to accomplish this data structure hierarchy?

    Thanks again.

    Thread Starter mungbean

    (@mungbean)

    7 years, 1 month ago

    I just wanted to follow-up on the general question of groups-of-groups/subgroups with this plugin. Is this supported currently or planned for the future?

    Thanks again

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