ACF Relationship between 2 CPTs

[designerken]

Greetings and Happy New Year.

I have a Services CPT and a Projects CPT. I also use ACF with a relationship field called project_services on the Projects CPT that lists all the services.

When I create the new Project posts, I see the related services tab and can easily select the appropriate services.

On the single-projects layout I can easily add the list of the selected services with this:
{{dc:acf:post_field field="project_services"}} and setting a headline element with the following {{ post.title }} (I have TWIG enabled.)

I am now trying to create the single-services layout and want to display some related projects. But when I add in the same as above, nothing is output. How are you supposed to add the related projects on services?

[Ismael]

Hello @designerken,

Thank you for the inquiry.

Based on the screenshot above, the “project_services” field is only available for the post type “Project”. You may need to edit the Settings > Location Rules and enable the field for the other post type. Let us know if this helps.

Best regards,
Ismael

[designerken]

@Ismael

Actually, I needed to create a related_projects relationship field with ACF. Then set it to bidirectional. Then change project_services to bidirectional as well.

this allows for both CPTs to talk to each other with respect to the services and projects. Then I can adjust the looper for both layouts accordingly.

Doing this sorted my issue.

[marc_a]

Hey @designerken,

We’re glad that you’re able to figure it out and thank you for sharing your idea.

Cheers!