What is the XY Problem?

What is it? The XY problem is asking about your attempted solution rather than your actual problem. This leads to enormous amounts of wasted time and energy, both on the part of people asking for help, and on the part of those providing help. User wants to do X. User doesn’t know how to do …

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Override Field Description with pods_form_ui_comment_text Filter

add_filter( 'pods_form_ui_comment_text', 'gnt_pod_field_comment', 10, 3); function gnt_pod_field_comment($message, $name, $options) { $key = $options['pod'] .'.'. $options['name'] .'.description'; //TODO: lookup in file or db or stg if ('accel_feedback.aggregate_wellbeing.description' == $key) { $message = "<b>Normal = 0.00</b>. A zero value indicates that the student is generally positive<br/>". "<b><font color='red'>Distress = -2.00</font></b>. Negative values indicate that the student is …

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Tips & Techniques

A repository for simple tips and techniques that don’t fit into the other major documentation categories and help you do things you might not have thought about before with Pods.

PodsCast #001: Find’ing Your Way with Pods:Find()

Find'ing Your Way with Pods:Find()

We are happy to announce the PodsCast, a live, bi-monthly video podcast with Pods team members. Each week we will spend about an hour talking about a specific part of Pods and answering user questions. Users can submit their questions on twitter using the hashtag #podscast or the #podscast channel in our Slack. For our first episode …

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