NEW PLUGIN 🥳 Smaal Tags by Smaal.co

[joe.sharpish]

Hey guys!

I’ve just got the plugin. On first impressions it looks great but I was curious if you have any advice for how I should set up and use it in my database for filtering.

I would like it to dynamically display the sustainable amenities on a property booking platform page. Each property will have its own unique set of amenities.

How should I filter and set up the database for this to work with the plugin and also load in a speedy way?

This article suggests having a separate data type for amenities to ensure site performance rather than hundreds of amenities with booleans on the property data itself Repeating Group - Creating a Property Features/Amenities List for a Property Listing

This also allows for adding icons and descriptions etc which I would like to have.

As an example
Property A will have composting, recycling and EV charge points
Property B will have Eco washing liquid, Zero waste food containers

I currently have these set up as ‘Basic sustainable features’ data type

These are then currently referenced by each property as a list of Basic sustainable features

In the database these are then stored as the unique id of each sustainable amenity

I’m curious as to how you would filter these in the plugin? I’m currently doing a search for the relevant property and then referencing the sustainable amenities unique id. This seems to work when it is a single text item but not a list of texts

If I select the :first item on that list it works but I would like the plugin to display all relevant items

Does that make sense? I feel like there may be a way to do this or something I’m missing in terms of filtering but I can’t seem to get my head around it.

I’m also totally up for restructuring my database but would love some guidance to make sure it worked with your plugin whilst also being speedy and scalable.

I guess the same question would apply if you had a job search website and you only wanted to display the skills a candidate had, so perhaps there might be a few use cases or someone who has this up and working well already.

Joe