Returning unrelated posts when connected to a draft post.

I solved it adding the following code after the get_related() query:

$wp_related = p2p_type( 'portfolio' )->get_related( get_queried_object() );

        // check if connected post is a draft:
		$connected = get_posts( array(
		  'connected_type' => 'portfolio',
		  'connected_items' => get_queried_object_id()
		) );

		if (!$connected)
			$wp_related = null;

I won’t mark this topic as resolved as this is just a workaround for me. I’d still like to understand why I get all those unrelated posts.

Turns out that setting $wp_related to null slightly messed up things so I did this:

$client_is_published = $connected ? 1 : 0;

and used later while checking for posts:

<?php if ( $wp_related->have_posts() && $client_is_published) : ?>

So, that turnaround unfortunately haven’t solved my problem, because It’ll return me nothing when the related post is a draft. It should return me all ‘A’ posts related to the draft ‘B’ post (the letter refers to the custom post type, as I mentioned above)

I need a list of posts connected to a draft-post connected to a post – is that possible?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Cheers

BTW, I just landed on this job where I have to deal with this. I didn’t implement the posts-to-posts plugin myself, neither have I any experience with this plug-in (great plug-in though). Guess it’s worth saying.

I believe some people might have run through this problem, so I’ll try to be more concise:

I have two custom post types linked to each other: PROJECT and CLIENT.

In a single-PROJECT page, I get all other PROJECTS related to the CLIENT related to that PROJECT.

The CLIENTS template shows a list of all clients.

However, It shouldn’t show all CLIENTS there, so I set some CLIENTS as draft.

Hence the problem: in a single-PROJECT page related to a CLIENT which had been set as ‘draft’, I’ll get a bunch of projects unrelated to that client.

I guess I’ll have to create a custom metabox on the CLIENT post type where I’ll be able to set whether it should show up on the CLIENTS page or not, and un-mark them as draft.