I have a site with a post type of "vendors". This is in a many to many relationship with a post type "affiliations" that allows vendors to show any associations they belong to. Only an admin or manager can add new posts to affiliations.
The vendor listing shows these affiliations in a view example attached as affiliations.jpg
Vendors are able to edit their listing with front end forms. I have created a form that allows vendors to connect to new affiliations. Shown in add affiliation.jpeg
What I have not been able to figure out is how to allow vendors to disconnect affiliations. The documentation around this appears to be non existent. Also the help in the technical support area is not particularly clear and quite old.
Is there a way I can let vendors disconnect the affiliations in the many-to-many relationship.
Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.
To delete a post-relationship, you can use the Toolset Forms shortcode [cred-delete-relationship] inside the loop of the view, that shows the related posts:
I have created a view to show the custom post (vendors) from the currently logged in user. This view works properly.
Inside that view I have a nested view that shows the related posts. This view is displaying the related posts properly. Here is the code for that view:
Can you please share problem URL where you added the view and admin access details.
Please share frontend user access details as well.
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I would also eventually need to request temporary access (WP-Admin and FTP) to your site. Preferably to a test site where the problem has been replicated if possible in order to be of better help and check if some configurations might need to be changed.
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The view in question hidden link shows Affiliations for the loggedin user and their Listing page. So the view is showing one of the many-to-many relationships. This is the listing hidden link that matches with the vendor login I gave you.
The listing is currently showing only those affiliations that go with the vendor listing. So I am getting the right affiliations showing I just can not delete the relationship. This view is intended only to be shown to vendors I will be hiding it from "market managers".
When you use[cred-delete-relationship] shortcode to disconnect the posts - to check whether users have permission to disconnect posts is not based on delete posts permissions, but on edit post permissions for both posts, on the left and right of the relationship.
And the way those permissions work, you need publish rights to be allowed including edit rights.
On the access control page:
- hidden link
For the Vendor role - I've grant the published capabilities for both post types in relationship that is: Vendors and Affiliations
I can see the Disconnect link now with above page when I added the following shortcode to the following view:
- hidden link
