[Resolved] Many to Many Relationships – Display View Based on Relationship Custom Fields

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[GTD9219]

I have many to many relationships between two CPTs
CPT1: People
CPT2: Product
M2M CPT: People Product

For the M2M Person-Product CPT, I have a select field (field = Relationship Type) with three options:
DIsplay Text | Custom Field Content:
Recommends | recommends
Authored | authored
About | about

I created a View...
Post relationship filter: Select posts that are in the People Products relationship as related Products of
[o] Post where this view is shown

The goal = show only the related posts with Relationship Type = "authored" ... not ALL related posts.

I can't seem to figure out how to do that... any idea?

[GTD9219]

BTW... I have read through these:
wp-types.com/documentation/user-guides/querying-and-displaying-child-posts/
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/filtering-views-by-custom-fields/ ... and many of the additional pages in the sidebar.

[Nigel]

Hi there

I understand your description of your post relationships and associated custom fields, but I don't quite follow from your question what you are trying to display where.

What page are you adding the View to?

A people post? And you want to display products connected to that person, but only those with the authored relationship type custom field value, is that right?

The current documentation for post relationships describes the current implementation, where this is possible.

It is not currently possible with the betas.

I tested that myself and the spoke to the developers.

It is currently being worked on, along with many other updates, and it is hoped that it will make it into the next beta release, but it could slip to the following release.

[GTD9219]

Ok. Sorry for neglecting to add additional context for where the views were being displayed / implemented.

I thought no existing features were "lost" with the betas. My mistake.

How would I accomplish this in the current, non beta version?

[Nigel]

You'll need to switch to the current stable plugin versions and set up your post relationships again.

The way you display related posts, so products connected to the person currently being displayed, is described here: https://toolset.com/documentation/beyond-the-basics/post-relationship-concepts/implementing-many-to-many-relationships/

What's particular to your set-up is that you make the intermediate post type and assign a custom field group to it and add custom fields to those intermediate posts as required. Then with the View that queries this intermediate post type you can add a filter for your custom field as you normally would.

If that's still not clear let me know and I'll elaborate.

[GTD9219]

I know it has been a while... but I thought I would reach out to see if any of the new beta releases support this yet AND/OR the final release is planned to have this feature.

As a reminder, the issue is the current stable release allows filtering views by custom field [of intermediary CPT for many-to-many relations] as detailed here: https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/filtering-views-by-custom-fields/

[GTD9219]

To clarify, I am trying to display a filtered view. There are two methods I'm aware of, but neither seems to work yet in the beta releases.

Method #1 = Modify the actual VIEW, as shown here: hidden link (source: https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/filtering-views-by-custom-fields/ )

Method #2 = Create a general view and then try to filter it based on a shortcode parameter, like below:
[wpv-view name="recommended-products" order="asc" wpcf-relationshiptype="authored"]

Is this going to be resolved at some point? Any kind of ETA whatsoever?

Is there any workaround?