You should play around with the software and do a few test-installs. follow all the Monday by Noon Guides carefully and I have a good feeling that in a few hours you'll have answered all your own questions.

Thank you for your prompt reply, Wesbos.

Yes, I have studied the Monday by Noon Guides, as well as the videos I have found on YouTube. Great stuff and very helpful indeed.

I have started playing around with Pods, and I got everything set up without problems.

The only problem I could not solve maybe due to my limited php coding experience. Or simply because I am overlooking simple solutions.

What I could not figure out using all guides is how I can display only the records that meet certain conditions. I want to show from a pod only those records for which a pick filed is set to a certain value. To be more concrete using the example above: I want to show a list from the standards pod, but only those entries that have the related_directive set to a certain value in the name field.

Do I need to use $Record->findRecords(); for that? Can I make a selector that generates a list on the basis of the selection?

Thank you.

Yeah, you need to use the WHERE syntax in findRecords()

here is a snippet from a findRecords() where I only want to pull pods with an id of 1

 $setting->findRecords('id ASC','','t.id = 1' );

Just as said above, you can use WHERE to filter your results. What should be mentioned - while you are on pod page for a single item, you don't need to filter those results because you'll already have only one Pod item. The first thing you'll need on your /* pages is pods_ url_ variable to get information about which standrad/directive was selected. Then you can use it to filter out Pod item with the same slug.

<?php
$slug = pods_url_variable('last');
$pod = new Pod (' *your pod name here* ', $slug); // you don't need to use findRecords here at all
$name = $pod->get_field('name');
$title = $pod->get_field('title');
$related_names = $pod->get_field(' *your second pod name here* .name'); //you can change "name" for other column machine names, of course
?>