How to setup flex-directory for multiple collections of entries

[austinrivas]

Hello,

This may be outside the scope of your plugin, but I was wondering if you have established a pattern for using flex-directory to manage several entries collections.

For instance, I would like to use flex-directory to manage both a collection of users like in your example, and a set of real estate properties.

After reading the source it seems like flex-directory can only manage one collection at a time. Would you recommend forking the plugin and installing a modified version of it for every collection I want to manage?

Thanks,
Austin

[rhukster]

Already in progress: https://github.com/trilbymedia/grav-plugin-flex-directory/tree/feature/multiple

[austinrivas]

@rhukster awesome, thanks for the quick reply.

What would you say is the state of that branch?

Is there anything I can do to help move it along?

[rhukster]

it needs some testing, primarily backwards compatibility testing. Not sure all the settings in flex-directory options are working. that kinda stuff.

[austinrivas]

@rhukster sounds like you guys are pretty close.

Do you mind posting the .yaml configuration files you are using so that I can do some testing?

I don't know if I can really help with backwards compat since I'm not a legacy user, but I can definitely help update the docs and submit a PR for the new README.

[mahagr]

It also needs a way to select which types are enabled and which are not in plugin settings (admin). Otherwise it's pretty much done.

[mahagr]

Some docs in here:

#8 (comment)

[austinrivas]

great, I'll let you know what I find in my testing

[patrickhoehn]

Any news on this?

[SjoerdSmeets]

What is the status for this? I'm also very interested in multiple collections..

[mahagr]

We have replacement plugin (Flex Objects, which uses Grav 1.6 classes) in works for this -- we are currently fixing bugs in it, there are a few because I've been focusing client work and not the parts we didn't need. Maybe there will be a public beta soon?

[SjoerdSmeets]

We have replacement plugin (Flex Objects, which uses Grav 1.6 classes) in works for this -- we are currently fixing bugs in it, there are a few because I've been focusing client work and not the parts we didn't need. Maybe there will be a public beta soon?

Is it worth waiting for, or will it be possible to import Flex Directory data into the new plugin?

[mahagr]

It's possible to use the existing data, but you may need to do some tweaks in the configuration to make it work.