User to Post Relationship - Remove Metabox From User Profile

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October 25, 2020 at 9:46 PM #22572

JC
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I am using the MB-Relationships plugin and the MB-User-Meta plugin together and things are working great! Thanks.

However, I am making relationships between users and posts programatically and I don't want the connected posts to appear in the user profile. I am able to hide post metaboxes really easily by using the standard WordPress remove_meta_box() function but I'm unsure how to remove the relationship fields from the User profile. Please can you advise?

Thank you and all the best 🙂

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October 26, 2020 at 10:12 AM #22577
Long Nguyen
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Hi JC,

We can use the argument 'reciprocal' => true to only show the relationship meta box when editing the post, only show for the from argument.
```
add_action( 'mb_relationships_init', function() {
    MB_Relationships_API::register( [
        'id'   => 'posts_to_users',
        'from' => array(
          'object_type'  => 'post',
          'post_type'    => 'post',
        ),
        'to' => array(
          'object_type'  => 'user',
        ),
        'reciprocal' => true
    ] );
} );
```
https://docs.metabox.io/extensions/mb-relationships/#reciprocal-relationships

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October 26, 2020 at 4:52 PM #22580

JC
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Thank you, that makes a lot of sense. I missed this in the docs.

When setting up the relationship, I went from users to posts, not from posts to users. Thankfully I haven't deployed the website yet so I can change this and make reciprocal = true.

Out of curiosity, is there a way to remove the metabox from the "from" side? Or must it always be the metabox on the "to" side that is removed?

Thanks again.

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October 26, 2020 at 9:48 PM #22583
Long Nguyen
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Hi,

By default, the meta box only shows for from object. You can switch object from and to to remove the meta box in the post and show in the user profile.
```
MB_Relationships_API::register( [
        'id'   => 'posts_to_users',
        'from' => array(
          'object_type'  => 'user',
        ),
        'to' => array(
          'object_type'  => 'post',
          'post_type'    => 'post',
        ),
        'reciprocal' => true
    ] );
```
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