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  • I have an odd issue, which i’m not sure is possible.

    I have set up a user relationship field which allows you to add users to your list (in a pseudo way as a “friend” or “connection”. The client would like a way to show a list of people who have added you to their account.

    I thought that this may be possible with another acf relationship field. But I can’t for the life of me work out how to achieve this.

    Any ideas?

  • Is this relationship users to users or users to posts?

  • Users to users.

    Essentially they are connecting to each other, and they want a way to have it so if User A is logged in and User B has added them as a connection that they know this by either an alert on their account page or as a list of people connected to them.

    Thats the ideal situation.

  • Currently using this code, which displays nothing.

    The user is returning User Objects. So not sure if this is just missing something to make it work right.

    <div class="connectedtoyou usersloop teamloop" style="margin-top:40px!important;margin-bottom:40px!important;display:none!important;">
<hr>
<div class="users">
<h3 class="center centered">Users connected to you</h3>
<?php
$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
$connect_user = 'user_'.$current_user->ID;
$connect_field = get_field('user_follows');

$args = array(
    'meta_key'     => $connect_field,
    'meta_value'   => $connect_user,
);

$user_query = new WP_User_Query( $args );

if ( ! empty( $user_query ) ) { ?>
<div class="row isotope">
    <?php foreach( $user_query as $user ): ?>
	<div class="col fade-up item">
			<div class="item-container"><a href="<?php echo get_author_posts_url( $user->id ); ?>" style="text-decoration:none!important;">
				<?php if ('health' == get_user_meta($user->ID, 'mepr_select_ident', true)) { ?><img src="<?php echo get_home_url(); ?>/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/D4HGN_Logo_2.png" alt="Health">
				<?php } elseif ('design' == get_user_meta($user->ID, 'mepr_select_ident', true)) { ?><img src="<?php echo get_home_url(); ?>/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/D4HGN_Logo_1.png" alt="Design">
				<?php } elseif ('research' == get_user_meta($user->ID, 'mepr_select_ident', true)) { ?><img src="<?php echo get_home_url(); ?>/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/D4HGN_Logo_3.png" alt="Research">
				<?php } elseif ('global' == get_user_meta($user->ID, 'mepr_select_ident', true)) { ?><img src="<?php echo get_home_url(); ?>/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/D4HGN_Logo_4.png" alt="Global">
				<?php } elseif ('network' == get_user_meta($user->ID, 'mepr_select_ident', true)) { ?><img src="<?php echo get_home_url(); ?>/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/D4HGN_Logo_5.png" alt="Network">
				<?php } else { ?>
				<?php } ?>
				<h4 class="darkgrey"><?php echo esc_html( $user->first_name ); ?> <?php echo esc_html( $user->last_name ); ?></h4>
			</a></div>
			</div>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
</div>
<?php } else { ?>
<p>No users are connected to you. <a href="https://d4hgn.com/network/network-users/">Click here to see who's on the network</a>.</p>
<?php }  wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
</div>
</div>

  • Sorry I didn’t get back to this sooner.

    I would start by looking and code available for bidirectional relationship fields. The user field works similar to the relationship field but stores data in the usermeta table. I would code a bidirectional user field. I do not know of any existing code for this but it’s possible that someone else has gone down this path already.

  • Thanks John. I’ll take a look. I wasn’t sure if there was a way of doing a loop (as mentioned above), that would loop through ALL users and highlight those who have added you to their field.

    That would then alert users to the fact that User A added you to their list.

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