Relationship between many products and many suppliers

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Last updated by Christian Cox 5 years, 9 months ago.

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April 1, 2019 at 3:33 pm #1224041

imanolP

We ave a toolset relationship between many products and many suppliers, but we need to be able to link a supplier more than once. Right not this is not possible; once you connect a supplier, it will not show up again on the list of available suppliers.

April 1, 2019 at 4:17 pm #1224065

Christian Cox

Hi, are you saying you want to be able to relate Supplier A and Product A more than once (non-distinct many-to-many), or you want to be able to relate Supplier A to Product A and also to Product B?

Non-distinct many-to-many relationships are not currently possible, so you cannot associate Supplier A to Product A more than once. One alternative is to use a third post type as an intermediary, and then create one-to-many (O2M) post relationships between Suppliers [0-1] > Intermediary [*], and Products [0-1] > Intermediary [*]. This is essentially how many-to-many relationships were managed before Types 3.