Is There a Way to Assign More Than One User to a Specific Post?

This thread is resolved. Here is a description of the problem and solution.

Problem:
How to relate multiple users to posts?

Solution:
Post relationships are available only for posts. To connect users and posts using relationships you need to create a "profile" post that is tied to a user and use this profile in post relationships. This is described in the linked documentation.

Relevant Documentation:
https://toolset.com/documentation/post-relationships/how-to-create-custom-searches-and-relationships-for-users/

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This topic contains 3 replies, has 2 voices.

Last updated by Ed 6 years, 1 month ago.

Assisted by: Nigel.

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December 19, 2018 at 10:50 pm #1170042

I want to add two users as "owners" of a specific post ("help request"); a user submitting a "help request" and a user providing a solution to that "help request".

Is that even possible?

December 20, 2018 at 10:55 am #1170448

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Hi Ed

You can create relationships with posts, but not with users. The only direct way to connect a user to a post is via the post author. Even if you used a plugin that lets you add multiple authors to a post, you wouldn't know which was which (the requester or the responder).

For custom searches involving users we propose a solution where you use user profile posts to mimic users so that they can be used in relationships, and that is probably the best solution here.

See https://toolset.com/documentation/post-relationships/how-to-create-custom-searches-and-relationships-for-users/

Otherwise you could add user custom fields for the requester and responder that stored the user ID, but you would then need to add a select dropdown for the user that you would have to populate via a View that output user display names and IDs in the required JSON format. (And this is only something you can do on front-end forms, not the back end).

Whatever you try, if you get stuck, let me know.

December 20, 2018 at 11:28 am #1170475

Thanks, Nigel. I kinda knew I wasn't going to be able to do that. I think your solution (and the article you shared) will get me what I need. It actually makes more sense, this way.

Thanks, again!

December 20, 2018 at 11:29 am #1170476

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!