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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/
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Last updated by 6 years, 3 months ago.
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Hello, 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?
I've seen that Metabox Relationships seems to enable this, and wonder if it's possible to use this plugin alongside Toolbox. I'm not an experienced coder though, so I'm hoping for a solution within Toolbox.
Thanks for any insight or assistance you can offer.
(In case it's relevant, I am using Elementor with Toolset to build my templates.)
Hi,
Thank you for your suggestion. I had found this article (https://toolset.com/faq/how-do-i-associate-one-child-with-several-parents-of-the-same-type/) and was trying out an intermediary custom type, but your explanation enabled me to simplify things a step further. I've attached a new map of the structure I'll try implementing now. Please let me know if you see anything that could give me problems.
I'd like to keep this ticket open for the moment, until I can get things working. I anticipate needing to ask for advice on setting up Views to display the information properly.
Thanks again for your help.
