Add existing posts as children to a parent

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This topic contains 3 replies, has 3 voices.

Last updated by Susannah 10 years, 7 months ago.

Assisted by: Luo Yang.

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November 20, 2012 at 1:55 pm #26247

simonlucas

I understand the concept of parent/child relationships and have implemented one. Let's say I have a ParentPost and a ChildPost. In the ParentPost editor I want to add an existing ChildPost – not a new ChildPost. If I add a child and give it the same name as an existing ChildPost then it creates two children with the same name.

I don't the editor to create ChildPosts at the ParentPost level – as they may duplicate existing ChildPosts - which have to be unique in my database. Each childPost represents an archeological artefact and will have a unique cataloguing number.

Is there a way to do this? For example, to get a pop-up or check box list of all the database objects that can be children of this parent post?

Thank-you

November 21, 2012 at 6:00 am #26477

Luo Yang

Hi simonlucas,

It not possible within Types, and it is already in our to-do list as a feature request.
To do it, you need edit your child post, and manually select parent post in the "Fields table" section

Regards
Luo

November 21, 2012 at 9:51 am #26516

simonlucas

Thank-you for your response. Looking forward to additional developments in Types.

August 31, 2013 at 12:23 pm #132843

Susannah

I am too looking for the feature.

I have a parent (project) and a child (news).
The workflow when maintaining the website will be to create projects. And only relate project to news when the news is created. This works fine with the drop-down on the child.

Right now I would love it if i could at least remove the ability for my users to edit a news-item on the project-edit-page. The editors will be confused and they might think that they remove a relationship and not deleting a post. As long as the featured simonlucas requested is not existing it would be better for me to simply hide the area regarding the News-child posts. I have another cpt which is a child, and it should not be hidden.

Can you help with this in PHP code?

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