Soft­ware note: Pods CMS Ver­sion 1.7.3 / WP 2.8.4

Doc­u­men­ta­tion: http://pods.uproot.us/codex/helpers

What are Input Helpers

An Input Helper lets you com­pletely cus­tomize the appear­ance of any input field… when adding new data contents.

In plain n00b Eng­lish: as an exam­ple, the default field “name” I had it to store last names, and a sep­a­rate col­umn to store first names (fname). The prob­lem of that would be when you’re using Bi-directional rela­tion­ship PICK col­umn to another Pod (let’s call this: Per­son) is you can only relate one of the columns, not both First Name and Last Name. So if you use the PICK col­umn the “name”; which stores the Last Names, and with the last name like John­son – you prob­a­bly can’t tell which John­son that is. Input Helpers can grab and dis­play the full names for you when you’re adding data. (more…)