[Resolved] Many to many relationships with parametric search
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I am trying to: create a many to many relationship to do a parametric search. I have followed the tutorial https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/many-to-many-post-relationship/ In the example they have (bands - appearances - events) with the common being appearances. in the field table you can only choose one band and one event to belong to that appearance.
I want to link appearances to more than one event. I know this sound silly. But I am trying to do (body parts- abnormalities- diagnoses) with abnormalities being the common. You can have one abnormality belonging to one body part but you can have an abnormality be part of more than one diagnosis. How do I achieve this?
It says "To display songs in an album, load the ‘listings’ of an album and then, load the songs of a listing."
The only problem with this is the song shows up twice in the listing
I plan on running a parametric search with checkboxes on the listings or in my case the abnormalities to get a possible diagnosis or diagnoses. This will display duplicates in the abnormality list.
I am trying to understand the setup of your many-to-many relationship, between several CPTs. But I think I am not understand it completely.
Since your parametric search on home page, uses all types of anomalies as post taxonomies, while for many-to-many relationship, these seem to be CPTs.
Generally, taxonomies work quite differently than CPTs. Can you please explain that how you plan to list all these CPTs as checkboxes and how do expect the search results? This will help me understanding the scenario. Although your intermediary object (anomalies list) looks fine too.
A detail explanation and some diagram or graphics/images will help as well, thanks.
I was trying create a search just like the one on the home page. To look and work the same. I thought if I could create it with CPT's that I would have more flexibility with the abnormalities (For pictures and content of each abnormality) The way I have it set up now with a taxonomy the abnormality is just a search term. It does not go anywhere. If this cant be done I understand.
Unfortunately, CPTs do not work as search terms. This is not a natural way of WP system, unlike the Taxonomies. This will require a lot of custom coding efforts and much time to enforce such a system within the WP scope.
Since CPTs contain custom posts, which you can display as checkboxes, but this is not how View is designed to offer you some builtin solutions (i.e. using taxonomies you can do this easily).
There are several 3rd party plugins available which you can use to add custom fields and thumbnails with categories/taxonomies, like:
