My Roles - New section to complement the My Work database

As I keep working on the My Work database, I realize that I want to connect this with, sort of, a CV that show my professional proficiency related to the work I have done. I have been playing around with different thoughts and come to the conclusion that it may not be a bad idea to have a database for it. The reason for that is that I will go back to being a consultant again next year and having updated information with connections to My Work will be very nice indeed.

I already have a database for Roles and I will repurpose and this will be very easy to do since much of it is pretty static. I will make these entries in two languages, so each entry will have a switch between English and Swedish. For the Assignments I will simply use a plugin block that I add to a text field. This will allow me to feed in entries from the My Work database automatically. I will play around with this a bit to see how I can best use this to make it look exactly like the CV I have in the downloads section.

Speaking of the downloads section I will upload my CV’s again as I make the new ones. It should be pretty easy to do, especially if I put in the work to build the My Work properly. I will be able to get the listings of work automatically, but I will need to build multiple versions of the blocks to fetch the language specific fields depending on what language the user has selected. This should not be a problem, but it will be a bit time-consuming. As most CV’s have the same data, except for the description and in some cases the list of assignments, building this database and maintaining it should be a lot easier once I have this set up.

For the areas where I have Employments, Education and Certificates I will simply just make blocks for that since they rarely need to be updated. For Area of expertise, Industry experience, Methodologies and Tools I will have to consider that a bit. The reason for that is that I want to link those to Tags and since you can only have one section for tags, I might want to set up a new database for that. This way I can use the database link field to select the “tags” I want to add to different sections. I have to test this and see if this works, otherwise the option is to make several blocks, and I am not that keen on doing that to be honest.

To be able to work with Tags this way I need to make sure I can split the field values because they are saved as a comma-delimited list rather than individual items. This should not be that difficult, but I need to put in the time to actually solve that part.

There is no shortage of fun things to build, but it takes time and I have to make sure it does not cause stress. This is because I am still recovering from a long period of extreme stress and working on the website should be fun and cause for joy and creativity and not stress. So, I will take it slow and put this on the to-do list while I continue to work on the My Work section.

You can follow the progress in the Roadmap as always.