[Resolved] Missing dropdown to select already existing children

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[thomasD-11]

I am trying to:
I added a post relation ship many to many between two cpt. But: When I'm in the editor, I can only add new children, but I cant figure out how to use the already existing ones. Am I missing something? This seems like a standard thing one would expect from this feature.

[Nigel]

Hi Thomas

In the current implementation to add a relationship with existing children you have to edit the child post and assign the parent.

Note that work on the new post relationship implementation is well advanced and will significantly improve the workflow.

You can see more details of that here: https://toolset.com/2017/12/types-and-views-betas-with-many-to-many-relationships/

The beta of Types is available from your downloads page (https://toolset.com/account/downloads/), switching to the beta channel.

An update to the beta is expected around the end of the month and the final release to follow.

[thomasD-11]

Hi Nigel,

thanks for the answer. Hm, that looks better UI wise. I'll try it out . Otherwise I'll have to use the posts2posts Plugin.
Thanks,
Best wishes,
Thomas

[thomasD-11]

Well, the migration didn't work:

An error has occured during the activation. Please contact the Toolset support forum with the copy of the technical details you will find below.
"> Migration to many-to-many post relationships started.
> No tables had to be dropped.
> The toolset_associations table created.
> Relationship definitions migrated.
> Migration to many-to-many post relationships started.
> Dropped table "wp_7_toolset_associations".
Dropped table "wp_7_toolset_relationships".
> The toolset_associations table created.
> Relationship definitions migrated."

[Nigel]

Hi Thomas

Do you have debugging enabled? Can you check your debug log for any errors relating to this?

Otherwise can you activate debug mode and try the migration again?

If you haven't already, turn on the debug log by editing your wp-config.php file and change the line with WP_DEBUG like so:

define('WP_DEBUG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false);

That will create a debug.log file in your wp-content directory which you can examine in any text editor. Try running the wizard again and then inspect the log. If you don't find the debug.log file it means it didn't generate any warnings or errors.

[thomasD-11]

Did that. What the log says:

2018-01-17T17:03:53+00:00 CRITICAL Uncaught InvalidArgumentException: The element to connect with doesn't belong to the relationship definition provided. in /home/httpd/wp.kupf.at/wp-content/plugins/types/vendor/toolset/toolset-common/inc/m2m/potential_association/query_posts.php:64
Stack trace:
#0 /home/httpd/wp.kupf.at/wp-content/plugins/types/vendor/toolset/toolset-common/inc/m2m/potential_association/query_factory.php(31): Toolset_Potential_Association_Query_Posts->__construct(Object(Toolset_Relationship_Definition), Object(Toolset_Relationship_Role_Child), Object(Toolset_Post), Array)
#1 /home/httpd/wp.kupf.at/wp-content/plugins/types/vendor/toolset/toolset-common/inc/m2m/migration_associations.php(77): Toolset_Potential_Association_Query_Factory->create(Object(Toolset_Relationship_Definition), Object(Toolset_Relationship_Role_Child), Object(Toolset_Post))
#2 /home/httpd/wp.kupf.at/wp-content/plugins/types/vendor/toolset/toolset-common/inc/m2m/migration.php(342): Toolset_Relationship_Migration_Associations->migrate_association(12916, 1236

I also tried deactivating the other plugins.

[Nigel]

OK, thank you for that.

I have another client reporting something similar and have already escalated their thread to be investigated further, but it may help to have a copy of your site, too.

Could you please provide a duplicate of your site: https://toolset.com/faq/provide-supporters-copy-site/

If you are unfamiliar with duplicator or have problems creating the archive let me know and I can create it myself if I have access to your site.

I'll mark your next reply as private.

[Nigel]

Hi Thomas

My colleague is having problems narrowing down the issue with the other site reporting the same problem, and it would be very helpful to have a copy of your site for comparison.

Would you mind giving me credentials so I can make a duplicate myself?

Your next reply is private.