Missing Features and Features Request

  • Resolved gamicord

    (@gamicord)


    4 years, 1 month ago

    Hello Sir,
    I was at this website of Toolset (https://toolset.com/home/comparing-toolset-to-free-and-paid-alternatives) and was going through the Comparison that Toolset did.

    I won’t lie, Pods scored extremely very high. Pods was very impressive– Although, there are things that were still missing in Pods.

    I will like to state them out, and ask if Pods will implement them in the nearest future.

    1.) Under CUSTOM FIELDS, Pods does not have:
    a) Repeating Fields.
    b) Repeatable field groups.
    c.) Customizer Integration.

    2.) You have Custom Admin Option Pages. But what does this mean? And how do I use it?

    3.) Under FRONT-END FORMS, You do not have PAYMENT WITH FORMS, and you do not have Notifications.

    4.) Under DYNAMIC CONTENT, You do not have:
    a.) Filter by fields & taxonomies.
    b.) Front-end sorting controls.
    c.) Infinite scroll.
    d.) Different output formats– Slider, Grid, Pinterest/Masonry, and Sortable Table.
    e.) Display posts on maps.

    5.) Under CUSTOM SEARCH, You do not have:
    a) Front-end filters with ajax.
    b.) Support for post relationships.
    c.) Support post relationships from CSV.

    6.) Under IMPORT/EXPORT, you do not have support for:
    a.) Support post relationships from CSV.

    These are 6 Item Categories with their subcategories of 14 things that Pods has not done.

    QUESTION
    1.) Will Pods implement these requests in the nearest future?

    Needing to hear from you soon.
    Regards

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  • Plugin Contributor Bernhard Gronau

    (@quasel)

    1)
    a) that’s planned for the 2.9 release
    b) you can use flexible Relationships https://youtu.be/V8c067GAEcA

    2) https://docs.pods.io/creating-editing-pods/creating-a-custom-settings-page/#Advanced_Options

    3) That’s left for Forms e.g. there is a integration for Gravity forms – https://de.www.ads-software.com/plugins/pods-gravity-forms/

    4+5+6) Thats are huge topics and the answer very much depends on your use case some of it is easily doable other things might be better left for other tools e.g pods integrates very well with FacetWP, Beaver Builder,… and many others so there might not even be a need to build everything into pods…

    Have you checked out the “Plan Before You Build: Information Architecture & Content Strategy” video? We highly recommend it to give you a better understanding of how to structure your content and build your data model based on your content needs: https://youtu.be/OPHfDVWyuZU

    Need a more hands-on visual approach to building things with Pods? Check out “Build Anything with Pods! A hands-on workshop using the Pods Framework”. Check it out: https://youtu.be/U6co02SeMVA. Also check out our Docs page that includes all template examples: https://docs.pods.io/videos/build-anything-with-pods-hands-on-workshop-using-the-pods-framework/

    These are 6 Item Categories with their subcategories of 14 things that Pods has not done.

    Every Tool has their strengths and weaknesses and a comparison provided by one tool might not factor in stuff other tools have built that it hasn’t e.g. take a look at a comparison of far more CPT tools… https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoY8IFUX301qdFhBaERLUEUwa3U0YjFYTnBmaU1mbmc

    Thread Starter gamicord

    (@gamicord)

    Thank you very much for this reply.

    It was a big eye opener for me, and getting to know that Pods will have Repeating and Repeatable fields in its 2.9 release, is a great sigh of relief for me.

    Now, my use case is such that a friends wants to have 2 separate kinds of website in one Domain Name. He wants to have a Real Estate website and a Recruitment Website under one domain.

    There will be a button that says “JOBS” and when this button is clicked, the user is taken to a new Page with a separate kind of header, that leads to only information connected with Jobs and Recruitment.

    But we need 4 different kinds of Dashboard, all in that one website. These are Employer, Job seeker, Agent and Agency. And each of these User Roles will see different Menus when they log in according to their User Roles.

    For example, Employer Dashboard shows applicants, Received Resumes, Posted Jobs etc.

    Job seeker Dashboard shows: Submitted applications, Jobs applied for, etc.

    Agents and Agency Dashboards show: Submitted Properties, Sold Properties, etc.

    So I needed:
    a.) Filter by fields & taxonomies.
    b.) Front-end sorting controls Under DYNAMIC CONTENT because I will have different Archive and Single Pages for my different User Roles, and will need to be able to sort and filter the Archive Pages.

    I needed:
    d.) Different output formats– Slider, Grid, Pinterest/Masonry, and Sortable Table– because the List Layout alone of your template is not sufficient. The Page will become unreasonably too long when Posts become many.

    If you will not increase the Display and Output formats, Please add Grid format to it. Grid has a beautiful way of minimizing display space. Please add Grid display to your output style.

    Every Tool has their strengths and weaknesses

    I agree with this your statement hundred percent (100%), but Pods has fascinated me too much, that I wish for it to have so much power and few weaknesses.

    I mean that I wish it to be that– whatever power that is possible to be additionally built into Pods, I would like for it to be built-in– so that Pods will have few dependencies(few third party things it needs to depend on).

    Lastly, I’d like to ask if I can create User Dashboards using Pods?

    Special Appreciation.

    Plugin Author Jory Hogeveen

    (@keraweb)

    Hi @gamicord

    Since you are in a pre-phase of your project I’d like to forward you to the following page:
    https://docs.pods.io/faqs/what-can-you-build-with-pods/

    There is a limitation as to what you can expect from software in general.

    For example:

    I’d like to ask if I can create User Dashboards using Pods?

    Yes you can, but you’ll need the experience and knowledge of several tools and structures to create something like this.
    It won’t be a “click on a button” kind of project. You’ll be able to use Pods to create your database structures, object types and fields. But you’ll still need to create the UI yourself so your users can actually work with your system.

    In short, Pods can help you a lot with your setup by taking a lot of the “heavy lifting” our of your hands. But it won’t create projects like that from scratch. It’s a framework, not a single-plugin solution for everything, especially more advanced (interactive) systems.

    As for new features, we work as hard as we can to enhance Pods. You can follow progress and the roadmap on GitHub. https://github.com/pods-framework/pods/projects

    Cheers, Jory

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