Relation reverse in same custom field.

Dear,

For a client, we need to develop a flexicontent site. We have some questions about relation reverse. I will first explain what we want to obtain. You have 2 articles A and B. We want to have a custom field, e.g. related articles. In article A we link with this custom field to article B, and then automatically it should also link article B to article A. Some logic can be obtained with relation reverse but this is in another custom field, and this is not what we want. We want that the link back is filled in the same custom field because you can not manage the relation reverse field (you can't add manually items in it). So the question is quite simple, when we link an article to another article, the link back should be made automatically. How can we cover this in flexicontent?

Hello

e.g if you have 2 types:
- Singer
- Song

then
1. to Content Type singer assign a "relation" field e.g. called "Singer songs"


2. and to Content Type songs assign a "relation reverse" field that reverses the field "Singer Songs" (there is a parameter for this, inside field's configuration)

This is correct but the custom field 'relation reverse' cannot be updated by the editor. This is only a generated custom field on which you can't add relations.
This means that you can only link items from songs or from singers but not both from both sides. And we want to be able to do this from both sides

Hello

i see, you cann't

then (for) now you will have to select the most appropriate place for placing the relation button

place it on the most important type...



The is non public (yet) "autorelations" field (is new) that displays field filters inside the items form to define automatic filtered relations

-- aka you submit or change an item and if it matches the criteria it becomes automatically related

but this is not relevant to your case, and is not available yet, will be during october

Regards

Dear,
First of all, thanks for your answers. We are quite new in this topic.
We have done some investigations now on what is happening in the database with relation field. We can see that all the relations are maintained in the following table "prefix"+_flexicontent_fields_item_relations. We would like to change the behaviour by creating an linked article in this way, that is stores also in the database the link back. This should be easy, because the only table elements are "field id", which you know, item id " you also know", "valueorder" that needs to be unique, "value" that contains the linked article and content type id. Do you know in which php file we should adapt the code that at the moment of a related article is added, this table is updated in the 2 directions? It would help me a lot if you could tell me where this update is done so we could change the update of the database by adding the link back.
The relation reverse is just a lookup in the same table, starting from the value in stead of starting from the item id (we presume).

Many thanks

Hello

for start you may try this:

How to Duplicate a Flexicontent Field to create a new Field Type