Hi there – trying to figure out how to do this. Say I have two post types – “Company” and “Product”. What I want to do is have a field (probably a relationship or post object) referencing a specific field from the linked/relationshipped company post (say “company_status” for the sake of this example) and displays the (non-editable) value along with all of the other editable acf fields for that post. Here’s the for instance:
Say that we have 4 companies – A, B, C, and D. Company A and B have a status of “Open”, C has a status of “Closing”, with D having a status of “Closed”. We also have 5 products – 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Products 1 and 2 are made by Company A, 3 by B, 4 by C, and 5 by D. What I would LIKE/expect to have show up here is that product 1 and 2’s “company_status” field would display “Open”, 3 would display “Open”, 4 would display “Closing”, 5 would display “Closed”.
I’ve tried looking at the bi-directional relationship plugin by John H but it’s not quite making sense to me – but then again post object and relationship fields don’t fully make sense for me either at the moment.
Really appreciate it and thanks in advance!
Are you saying that, given your example, in the Edit Product screen for “Product 1” there would be a field with the text “Open”? And this field is set to the company_status field of an associated company?
If that’s the case, I would do something like this:
1. Associate Products to Companies (already done).
2. Create a “company_status” field on Company cusotm post type.
3. Create a “product_company_status” field on Product custom post types.
4. Use the update_value hook to detect the Company’s company_status field getting updated. See the Update_value() documentation.
5. In the hook function, find all products that are associated with that company. Then loop over all Products and update the “product_company_status” field with the new “company_status”. See the update_field() documentation.
Now whenever a “Company” post’s has it’s company_status value updated, the hook function will fire, updating all products. I hope that makes sense.
