History: Linking trackers
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Linking Trackers
We will create a tracker for Offers and another one for Demands, that include the option to allow comments. Both trackers will be linked by a common field (field user), which will allow showing information from one tracker on the other.
First we will create the one for Offers, for example, and its fields, and afterwards, we will create the one for Demands from duplicating the one for Offers.
(1) Create the tracker Offers ("Trackers > Admin Trackers > Create tracker", with default values for all parameters, except for the setting to allow comments, that we will leave checked, and allowing the fields to be shown in the visualization mode.
(2) Click where it says "Edit This Tracker's Fields".
(3) Create the following fields:
| Offers (Id Tracker = 1)
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| Id | Position | Name | Type | Options | isMain | Multilingual | Tbl vis | Searchable | Public | Hidden | Mandatory | Description | |
| 10 | Title | text field | X | X | - | X | X | - | X | 10 | name of the offer | ||
| 11 | Categories | category | 4 | - | X | X | - | X | 20 | ||||
| 12 | User | user selector | 1 | X | - | X | X | editable by admins | X | 30 | |||
| 13 | Demands of the same person | items list | 2,16,12,14,1 | X | X | - | X | - | 40 | ||||
Once created this tracker for Offers, we will duplicate it (through "Trackers > Admin Trackers > Edit tracker Offers > Duplicate tracker"), setting the new tracker as "Demands" and something as description, and choosing "Offers" as the tracker to duplicate it from.
Once done, go to edit the required items so that the new tracker Demands becomes as this table below (change the field 14 description, field 17 "Demands of the same person" for "Offers of the same person", and as parameters, the new ones.
| Demands (Id Tracker = 2)
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| Id | Position | Name | Type | Options | isMain | Multilingual | Tbl vis | Searchable | Public | Hidden | Mandatory | Description | |
| 14 | Title | text field | X | X | - | X | X | - | X | 10 | name of the demand | ||
| 15 | Categories | category | 4 | - | X | X | - | X | 20 | ||||
| 16 | User | user selector | 1 | X | - | X | X | editable by admins | X | 30 | |||
| 17 | Offers of the same person | items list | 1,12,16,10,1 | X | X | - | X | - | 40 | ||||
How to fill the field "items list" from the Offers Tracker (Id Tracker 1) with 5 parameters or options separated by commas:
| Id Tracker (There) | Id Common Field at the other tracker | Id Common Field at this tracker | Id Field that we want to show (of the tracker in there) | linked | |||||||||
| 2 (Tracker Demands) | 16 (field "user" at tracker Demands) | 12 (field "user" at tracker Offers) | 14 (field "Title" of the Demand at the Demands tracker) | 1 (make the information shown in this field at the Offers tracker as clicable, in order to allow going directly to those items in the Demands tracker) | |||||||||
How to fill the field "items list" of the Demands Tracker (Id Tracker 2) with 5 parameters or options, separated by commas:
| Id Tracker (There) | Id Common Field at the other tracker | Id Common Field at this tracker | Id Field that we want to show (of the tracker in there) | linked | |||||||||
| 1 (Tracker Offers) | 12 (field "user" at tracker Offers) | 16 (field "user" at tracker Demands) | 10 (field "Title" of the Offer of the Offiers tracker) | 1 (make the information shown in this field at the Demands tracker as clicable, in order to allow going directly to those items in the Offers tracker) | |||||||||
For the field Category, will go out us some options that will be able to select (one or more than one). These options have to create as a subcategories of a category mother. For example, imagine that we have the category 1 that is "Categorisation of offers and demands", and that create to in, of her, as a categories daughters, the subcategories "Courses" (with id of category automatically assigned to 2 in that case), "Services" (with id automatically assigned to 3), "Objects" (with id automatically assigned to 4), and "Other" (with id automatically assigned to 5).
It is necessary to write then to the field category the value "1" (for how show the subcategories that has to in).
Now already can go to fill some offers as a different users (for example, user1 does two offers and an asked, and user2 does 1 offer and 3 demands). And afterwards see how remains... 😊
We actuate also the option that the trackers accept comments (to level to edit the tracker of offers and the one of demands). Also test to watch to any tracker (clicar to the eye for subscriure'ns to receive posts-e when there is new ítems added or modified to the tracker of Offers), and to watch any ítem concrete of the tracker of offers (to receive warnings for post-e when there are comments of this ítem, or there are changes of the item),