In the edit view of my CPT ("Profile") the section "Author" is displayed. But unfortunately this section is empty and no author can be added or changed. Of course, the corresponding field is activated in the toolset settings, see: https://toolset.com/forums/topic/modify-cpts-author/ and all necessary rights are given ("Administrator").
What can I do to change the author? And is it possible to assign more than one author to a CPT? Because in the second step I plan to create a frontend form so that authors can assign or remove themselves (and with appropriate rights also other authors) to a CPT. In this context, it would also be good to know whether - analogous fields that are attached to relationships - it is also possible to create an individual text field for the user-CPT connection, which can then be filled by the author himself during the assignment (via frontend form).
Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.
I just checked with my test install and I can see the author field is displayed with my custom post type edit post screen.
Here is the test site with login: hidden link
And you can try to edit the student post type and I can see the author field is displayed:
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And is it possible to assign more than one author to a CPT?
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Toolset does not offer to assign multiple authors per post feature. In fact, WordPress does not support multiple authors per post. This is a customized feature offered by some plugins and is handled entirely in a non-standard way.
You can check the following plugin if that may help you to assign multiple authors per post.
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Because in the second step I plan to create a frontend form so that authors can assign or remove themselves (and with appropriate rights also other authors) to a CPT. In this context, it would also be good to know whether - analogous fields that are attached to relationships - it is also possible to create an individual text field for the user-CPT connection, which can then be filled by the author himself during the assignment (via frontend form).
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As you already check the doc: https://toolset.com/lesson-placement/lesson-placements-1622969-1929573/
The relationship between user is possible through the author field and it can be only one author possibly assigned currently per post.
If you want to link posts to user-CPT connection, the only way to do is you should also store users as CPT. So, you should create a post type for instance "User Profile" and when you add a new user to your site make sure one entry should also be added to "User Profile" post type. That means if you have 10 users, you will also have 10 "User Profile" post type posts.
And then you can create post relationship between post type "User Profiles" and any of you post type you want. I hope this makes sense.
