Relationships
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I have a Pod (let’s call it “Old”) with about 20 fields. I want to add 3 fields that will pull their contents from another Pod.
For the sake of brevity, let’s call the 3 new fields Name, Rank and Serialnumber. They are in a Pod called New.
To add the first field, Name, I created a new field in the existing “Old” Pod, also called it Name, and in the Relationship, picked Related To as “New”. When called in a template, this works, and I see the contents of the field “Name” that are stored in the New Pod. The New Pod is a Custom Post Type.
I add another field called Rank, also do the same thing: but the Related To dropdown only lets me pick the Pod “New”, not any specific field in that Pod. In the template, {@rank} also displays the contents of the field Name.
I am sure this is pretty simple, but I just don’t get it. How do you specify WHAT field in a Relationship type field to link to? I thought it just involved naming the two fields the same.
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Relationships don’t work against ‘specific fields’. You’re creating a relationship to the post on the other side of the relationship, not to the ‘field.
If you want to show the contents of another post that is related to ‘Old’, you’ll create the relationship to the other post, let’s call that field ‘Related_New’ and you’ll reference the rank, name and serial number as:
related_new.rank
related_new.name
related_new.serial_numberCheck out the following video for a primer on how Pods relationship fields work:
https://docs.pods.io/videos/grow-beyond-posts-pages-introduction-pods-framework/
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