[Steven Zahm]

@ William

re: Could you do the same type of thing in an individual record and use a relation of “family”?

Well, yes, that could be done. However, if time is going to be invested in changing this, it should be changed for the better which would be a custom relationship table. This would allow other uses beyond creating families in a way that could actually be queryable from the database.

re: Which module(s) do the updates to the “options” field. Is there a function that unpacks the data stored in that field. I would like to look at the code if that is ok.

The data is a serialized array. (A future changed will make this a JSON encoded array). Here’s a link to an online tool which will unserialize the array.

Hope that helps!