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Hi,

I'm interested in using MyStuff2 to track, among other things, craft projects, and I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to set this up. Basically, I have currently set up categories to track "patterns" and "materials" but I'd like to add another category for "projects" where items (individual projects) would list items from other categories as attributes. In my head this would resemble a lookup list, except the lookup values would be the contents of the other category, but there doesn't seem to be a way to implement this directly. Is there a way I'm missing, or is there another way to do this, maybe using groups instead of categories?


Thanks very much for your time. I'm really impressed with the flexibility of MyStuff and how easy it was for me (a noob) to set up the basic categories and information I want.

I believe what you are looking for is being discussed in this other thread:

viewtopic.php?f=32&t=514

Unfortunately there currently isn't any way to have one item reference another in MyStuff2. Your use case would be perfect for the feature being discussed.

The only possible suggestion for now would be to setup your patterns and materials as lookup lists instead of categories with items. Then you could have a project category with attributes that reference the pattern and material lookup lists.

You could still have the materials and patterns categories in addition to the lookup lists. There just wouldn't be any link between them other than you using the same names.

Thank you! I will pop right over to that other thread.