Bidirectional relationships between different post types?

• jamiesvm

• July 30, 2019 at 6:12 am

I looked into these subjects
https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/bidirectional-relationships/
https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/bidirectional-relationships-and-multiple-post-types/

thinking they would solve my issue, but I’m not wrapping my head around it I think. Here’s my scenario:

Home Builder Website

I have Custom Post Types:
Floor Plans
Neighborhoods

I have these relationships set up:
Floor Plans
– Relationship: Filter by post type: Neighborhood

Neighborhood
– Relationship: Filter by post type: Floor Plan

So when I add that Floor Plan A is available in Neighborhood A, it shows up on the front end in the right place.

HOWEVER, what I would prefer to happen on the backend is when I add Floor Plan A, and select that it is available in Neighborhood A, when I go to Neighborhood A, it has automatically updated the available floor plans to include Floor Plan A.

I *thought* maybe the Post2Post plugin would help with that, but it seems to be for integrating the same information on different post types, instead of what I outlined above.

• jamiesvm

• July 30, 2019 at 7:18 am

So you know how you ask something and then immediately figure it out? LOL… I think my issue was that I wasn’t naming the fields the same (which Post 2 Post requires), but once I did that it seems to be working how I need it to.