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  • December 15, 2021 at 3:04 AM in reply to: Connected "From/To" relationships obtained via API are backwards (?) #32622
    bzxbzx
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    To answer your last question – I digged a bit more into the documentation & forum posts, and the solution would be to register another relationship, and create relations (reciprocal to simplify this) in the WP Admin..

    Actually, you asked this right in time, since I realised I would need this! 🙂 I need to query all relationships between posts, which are from various categories, and I couldn't find any way to filter, as there is no category field returned from the API... unless there is?

    Thanks

    December 13, 2021 at 10:31 PM in reply to: Connected "From/To" relationships obtained via API are backwards (?) #32575
    bzxbzx
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    In my example, my requirement is that both Authors and Books are posts (not the built in WP author role) – so in order to create a relation between them I am using MB Relationships – and I am connecting an Author TO the Book. If then I want to have a page showing all Authors and display their Books, I am using the get_connected() method from the API, but I need to specify the from keyword in the query arguments... You're right, it is not unintuitive – it's illogical 😉

    December 13, 2021 at 5:17 PM in reply to: Connected "From/To" relationships obtained via API are backwards (?) #32568
    bzxbzx
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    Thanks for your response!

    I understand that connections are bi-directional, but the API requires me to explicitly specify the keyword (relationship direction) in the arguments (from or to) – therefore I would expect the query to execute accordingly. Right now it is backwards, don't you think it's quite unintuitive?

    Simple example: Authors connected TO any Books they wrote. On the page showing Authors if I used to keyword in the query, it wouldn't show me any connections...

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