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I have an interesting situation:
There are two post types:
– People
– StoriesPlease ignore suggestions such as using Users and Post instead. There’s a reason I’m doing it this way; I’m not providing the whole picture.
Stories has two fields that point to people: Author and People Involved.
What’s interesting is that when I do a get_posts for people involved in the story, I get all the people related (author and people involved). The question is, how would I discern between whether a person was related via the author field or the people involved field?
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Still really hoping to hear any thoughts on this. Perhaps it’d be useful to add an additional column to the wp_post_relationships table that stores the field name that inserted the relationship?
In the meantime, I’m at a bit of a loss. I could store the ID as a post meta, but then I lose the bi-directional relationship.
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@jason– Sorry for the delayed response. So you have TWO Relate fields for Stories CPT that point to Users CPT?
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Correct. One is an “Author” (single People CPT using select-relate field I made) and the other is “People Involved” (multiple People CPT using post-relate field). If I mark a person as Author and update the post, it will then show that person as the Author AND in “People Involved”, since it doesn’t differentiate.
I know it’s a strange case, but this has been an interesting project.
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@Jason– This is a really interesting use case. As we finalize the relate field we will make sure this type of functionality exists.
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