[Resolved] Relationship Slug Change

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[saint]

Hi there,

I noticed that it said you cannot change the slug for the Relationships and would like to request the feature to allow for that to happen.

Sometimes people make mistakes, or more often than not, as we create the architecture, things change, another slug makes more sense, or another relationship slug makes more sense to use and should override this to represent the 2 other CPTs.

Could we have the ability to change relationship slugs?

[Christian Cox]

Hi, I'll pass this feature request along to Beda, who handles feature requests for Types. I'm not aware of the technical limitations here, but it may not be possible. He will follow up with you soon.

[Beda]

I can change the Slug of a relationship just fine locally.

What you need to be aware of is that any ShortCode will break, which used that slug.
It's visible when you update the slug of a relationship and expected, there is no way to update all used ShortCodes on the fly when the Slug changes in the relationship base settings.

I added a screenshot of what I see.
Updating the Slug works fine, it's just not really suggested as all ShortCodes using that slug will fail after. You would need to update them manually.

[saint]

Hi Beda,

Ah, yes, I see that now after clicking on the disclaimer.

For the slug, if we don't use any of the custom fields added in the "Intermediate Object" post, and only pull custom fields from either CPT 1 or CPT 2, then do we need to worry about breaking anything if we change the slug down the road?

Thanks,

[Beda]

it says it right there:
it will break any shortcode that uses that relationship slug.

If you do not use it, nothing will break, but chances are if you do such an edit you already displayed something hence it'll break.

That's why the overlay is there - it requires an additional layer of attention if you edit such settings afterwards.

[saint]

Got it, okay thank you Beda! Understood.