How to set up Bidirectional Relationships?

  • Resolved morris373

    (@morris373)


    3 years, 10 months ago

    Hi
    I have been using Pods for nearly a month now and don’t understand how to set up bidirectional relationships.

    I have watched most of the videos but it doesn’t help as you are not told how to do it and are we just linking 2 Pods together or are we linking the fields together in these Pods.

    I would like to use it but I can’t set it up properly.

    Morris

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  • Plugin Author Jory Hogeveen

    (@keraweb)

    Hello @morris373

    Bi-directional relationships works as follows:

    – 2 Pods
    – Both have a relationship field, related to the other Pod
    – In the the field settings, the bi-directional setting is set to the field of the other Pod.

    Once this is correctly setup, the relationship status will automatically be synched.

    If a Pod 1 item adds a new relationship to an item from Pod 2 then this item automatically gets a relationship to the Pod 1 item as well.

    Use case:

    – Pod 1: Product
    – Pod 2: Event
    – Relationship field in the Product Pod: rel_event > Related to the rel_product field from the event pod.
    – Relationship field in the Project Pod: rel_product > Related to the rel_event field from the product pod.

    Once a Product adds a relationship to an Event then that Event automatically also adds a relationship to the same Product.

    This is the idea of a bi-directional relationship.
    Both Pods could also just add the relationship fields without enabling bi-directional sync. In that case, when adding a Project to a Product, the Event doesn’t automatically adds the Product to it’s list of relationships.

    Hope this clears things for you!

    Cheers, Jory

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    Plugin Contributor Bernhard Gronau

    (@quasel)

    Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

    Thanks,
    Bernhard

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