[Resolved] Cannot Display Grandparent Information on Grandchild Template

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[garretB]

I am trying to: Display the grandparents of my post in a sidebar. I have agencies, which are the parents of agents, and agents are parents of properties. I want to be able to display the parent agent information along with the grandparent agency logo and other agency details.

I expected to see: Only the parent agent in a content layout, where i can add the id attribute to the shortcodes in order to show grandparent values

Instead, I got: Every agency is displayed including those that are not parents the specific post being shown.
To start I followed the instructions on this page but they are not working for me currently

https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/displaying-fields-grandparents/

[Shane Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Garret,

Thank you for contacting our support forum.

Would you mind providing me with admin access to the website so that I can take a look at this setup for you ?

The private fields will be enabled for your next response.

Thanks,
Shane

[Christian Cox]

Hi, Shane is currently unavailable but will return tomorrow to continue working on this request. Thanks for your patience.

[Shane Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Garret,

Thank you for contacting our support forum.

Unfortunately i'm not able to log into the website could you check on the credentials for me.

Thanks,
Shane

[garretB]

Im sorry Shane it seems I got something wrong here. I should have tested the log in and I did not. Lets try this :

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[Shane Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Garret,

Just to confirm you want to display the Agency information on this post correct?

Thanks,
Shane

[garretB]

Hi Shane,

Yes, I think i should provide a better explanation of what Id like to be able to do. On my properties pages, I have a side bar that so far displays the agent information, like you can see on this post:

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What I would like to do is figure out how to display the agency my agent belongs too. So to be clear, right now my hierarchy is Properties belong to an agent, and each agent belongs to an agency.

So essentially Im looking to add in the "Grandparent" to my properties pages layout.

I was able to get a grandchild to work here:
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but the grandparent is giving me a bit of trouble. Thanks Shane!

[Shane Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Garret,

I'm still looking into this for you.

We may need to revise our documentation on how to achieve this because I may need to do some custom shortcode to get the correct information.

Thanks,
Shane

[garretB]

Thanks Shane, take your time no rush, I appreciate you looking into it for me.

[Shane Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Garret,

I wrote a manual shortcode to get this done for you.

// Add Shortcode
function parent_id() {

	$post_id = get_the_ID();
	$parent_id = get_post_meta($post_id,'_wpcf_belongs_agents_id');
	$grandparent_id = get_post_meta($parent_id,'_wpcf_belongs_agencies_id');
	return $grandparent_id[0];

}
add_shortcode( 'parent_id', 'parent_id' );

I've already implemented it and created a view to filter the information so you can check it on on the page.

Thanks,
Shane

[garretB]

Brilliant solution. Thanks so much Shane, this is exactly what I was hoping for.