Relationship field: seems like altering the query doesn't work

• ptf

• September 2, 2016 at 6:41 pm

Hello!

I’m trying to alter the query of the relationship field so that it only returns pages of a specific template. However, I seem to get the same result no matter how I alter the query, it just returns the posts on the site.

Now I have this:

function my_relationship_query( $args, $field, $post_id ) {
	
	// only show children of the current post being edited
	$args['post_parent'] = 7;

	// return
	return $args;
    
}
// filter for every field
add_filter('acf/fields/relationship/query', 'my_relationship_query', 10, 3);

It is more or less taken from the docs. I still just get the posts on the page. 7 is the id of a page.

What I was trying to do originally, was something like this:

return array(
    'post_type' => array('page'),
    'meta_query' => array(
    array(
      'key' => '_wp_page_template',
      'value' => 'page-theme.php',
      'compare' => '='
    )
  )
);

inside the filter function to get the pages I wanted, but that also returned the posts on the page.

Can anyone help?

If I remove the filter, it displays all the pages and posts, if I add any filter, it seems to just list out the posts.

• John Huebner

• September 3, 2016 at 11:30 pm

What version of ACF are you using?

• ptf

• September 5, 2016 at 5:55 pm

Hello, John!

I have version 5.4.3.

• John Huebner

• September 5, 2016 at 11:46 pm

I tried the example from the docs and it seems to be working as expected

function my_relationship_query( $args, $field, $post_id ) {
	
	// only show children of the current post being edited
	$args['post_parent'] = $post_id;

	// return
	return $args;
    
}
// filter for every field
add_filter('acf/fields/relationship/query/name=relationship_query_test', 'my_relationship_query', 10, 3);

If you are still having trouble with this then try deactivating other plugins and/or switching to an unmodified 20XX theme to see if there is still a problem. Something else could be interfering with the query.

As far as altering the query to get pages that use a specific template, you will have problems with this due to the way ACF sorts the post when the post type is hierarchical. Basically, in this case it really can’t be done. ACF attempts to order the posts in hierarchical order and if the parent of a page is not returned because of the filter then the results will be incorrect. So, the ability to filter the query can be limited on hierarchical post types.

• ptf

• September 6, 2016 at 6:12 pm

Ah, I found my mistake. I did what you said, disabled the plugins and changed the theme. That worked out.

When I tried to changed it back to the theme we’re using, and put the code in functions.php, earlier it was in another file, it worked.

Then I put it in the original file which gets included in the functions.php file, and it stopped working. Then, I noticed I forgot to add the namespace before the callback.
So this works:

function my_relationship_query( $args, $field, $post_id ) {
	
	// only show children of the current post being edited
	$args['post_parent'] = 7;

	// return
	return $args;
    
}
// filter for every field
add_filter('acf/fields/relationship/query/name=_theme', __NAMESPACE__ . '\my_relationship_query', 10, 3);

I’ll change the id of the post to a field which they can set on an options page.

Sorry about that, and super thanks for your help!
Hope I didn’t take to much of your time 🙂