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For the moment the only workaround I have found is to change the field to a simple Select type, but then i lose the Taxonomy's possibility to have an archive for all posts that share the same "Country".

What would be a better workaround ?

The problem is that an empty field will cause the text to pick up the current post's url.

My setup is as follows :
- in Bricks, there is a LOOP (set to the Field Group named "designers-gf") that is set to loop through the results for the "MB Group: Références Bibliographiques" group.
- The "designers-gf" field group includes (amongst other fields) this "MB Group: Références Bibliographiques" that has two fields : a text field "designers_ref" for the text, and "designers_url" for the URL.
- In Bricks builder, I set the url value to apply to the link for the text. Therefore if there is a value for the URL it should be used for the link, but if there is no value for the URL it should just remain a text without a link.

Now the problem is that when there is no value inserted to the URL field, the text element will by default pick up the current post's url and link to it. I need this to remain unlinked if there is no value added to the URL field. I feel that this is the way it used to work, but I can't figure out how to get there.

IO figured it out on my own (thanks ChatGPT) and ended up with this function that works perfectly, some might find it useful :

<?php
function update_objet_post_title_with_designer_and_latest_values($post_id, $post, $update) {
    if ($post->post_type !== 'objet' || wp_is_post_revision($post_id) || !$update) {
        return;
    }

    $genre_terms = get_the_terms($post_id, 'genre');
    $genre = !is_wp_error($genre_terms) && !empty($genre_terms) ? $genre_terms[0]->name : '';

    $date_terms = get_the_terms($post_id, 'date');
    $date = !is_wp_error($date_terms) && !empty($date_terms) ? $date_terms[0]->name : '';

    $objet_designation = get_post_meta($post_id, 'objet_designation', true);

    $designer_title = '';
    $connected_designers = MB_Relationships_API::get_connected([
        'id'   => 'objet-designer',
        'from' => $post_id,
    ]);

    foreach ($connected_designers as $designer) {
        // Assuming the designer's name is stored in "last, first" format.
        $name_parts = explode(', ', $designer->post_title);
        if (count($name_parts) == 2) {
            $designer_title = trim($name_parts[1]) . ' ' . trim($name_parts[0]);
        } else {
            $designer_title = $designer->post_title; // Use original if not in expected format.
        }
        // Sanitize for safety while preserving accents and capital letters.
        $designer_title = wp_kses_post($designer_title);
        break;
    }

    $designer_part = $designer_title ? " - $designer_title" : '';
    $new_title = trim("$genre \"$objet_designation\"$designer_part - $date");
    $new_title = rtrim($new_title, " -");

    if (get_the_title($post_id) !== $new_title) {
        remove_action('wp_after_insert_post', 'update_objet_post_title_with_designer_and_latest_values', 10);

        // Sanitize slug for URL, ensuring accents are handled appropriately.
        $sanitized_slug = sanitize_title($new_title);

        wp_update_post([
            'ID'         => $post_id,
            'post_title' => $new_title,
            'post_name'  => $sanitized_slug,
        ]);

        add_action('wp_after_insert_post', 'update_objet_post_title_with_designer_and_latest_values', 10, 3);
    }
}

add_action('wp_after_insert_post', 'update_objet_post_title_with_designer_and_latest_values', 10, 3);

Hi Peter,

The code is generated by ChatGPT, it invented some name for a custom field that does not exist (for the relationship), since the data I want to pull is coming from the Meta Box created Relationship (between two CPTs : "objet" and "designers").

So the question again : how can you pull the data of a relationship while in the admin area and saving a post ?

Thank you Peter, but I don't understand what you are suggesting.
Could you provide a code that will work inside a Bricks User query ?

Hi Peter,

Any news for this matter ? It would be such a good addition to MetaBox...