[Closed] Post Type Relationship "How to" – More Detail?

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[David]

I am bit confused by these 2 posts on how to create relationships between posts and how to use them?

https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/creating-post-type-relationships/
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/querying-and-displaying-child-posts/

I am creating a video directory of commercials and would like to connect those videos (posts) with the agency that produced them (CPT). On the individual video post, I would like to show the agency. On a custom view template for the agency, I would like to embed a view of all of the videos they produced.

Should I use a taxonomy? Should I just make the videos a child of the studio type and use the second tutorial above?

I tried the later but the views do not show anything.

Sh

[Caridad]

Dear David,

You are going in the right direction and both tutorials apply to what you want to do. I think you chose right in using CPT for Agencies because you will have custom fields for Agencies.

In the Video Content Template, follow this guide to show parent fields:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/displaying-fields-of-parent-pages/

And in the Agency Content Template, you can include a View View as explained in the first tutorial you linked.

Try it and let me know any specific problems that you find.

Caridad

[David]

It worked! Thank you.

Although half of the problem was that I had the relationship reversed. Once I made the agency the parent....it worked like a charm.