Topic Tag: Post-relationship

Problem:

I'm just getting started, nothing to show. Trying to lay out my data structure and determine best ways to implement, and I have a challenge to solve.

At the heart of my structure are custom post types called States. What I am struggling with is how to show simple from/to relationships between States, so that on a State post, I can easily display related states, designating some as "from" and others as "to." I've attached an rough image showing what I mean.

One possible challenge to this is that I expect to post dozens if not hundreds of States, and some will have the same name. I need to be able to easily link from one State to the correct from/to State when entering the data.

Is this possible in Toolset?

Solution:

I don't think it is possible within only one post type, within only one post type, there is only a "hierarchical" option
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type#hierarchical

And Toolset post type relationships are based on different post types:
https://toolset.com/documentation/post-relationships/

In my opinion, you can try these:
1) Create two post types:
- States
- Transforms

2) Create two one-to-one relationships between "States" and "Transforms"
- States transforms from
- States transforms to
https://toolset.com/documentation/post-relationships/

Then you will be able to connect "States" posts with each other

In a single "State" post, you can get the related "Transform" post on different relationships, and display the related "State" post

Relevant Documentation:

https://toolset.com/documentation/post-relationships/how-to-display-related-posts-with-toolset/

Problem:
What is the timeline for many-to-many relationships within same post type?
Solution:
No - That feature is on our list but it's not planned yet and unfortunately there is no ETA on it for now.

Relevant Documentation:

Problem: I would like to get related posts, filtered by author, using the new post relationships API.

Solution: Use the standard WP_Query with toolset_relationships criteria and post author filter added to the query.

Relevant Documentation: https://toolset.com/documentation/customizing-sites-using-php/post-relationships-api/how-to-migrate-your-site-to-new-post-relationships/