{"id":26557,"date":"2025-03-11T16:15:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crocoblock.com\/knowledge-base\/?post_type=article&p=26557"},"modified":"2025-03-11T16:21:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:21:36","slug":"jetengine-relations-dynamic-output","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/crocoblock.com\/knowledge-base\/jetengine\/jetengine-relations-dynamic-output\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Display Relations Custom Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The JetEngine<\/em>\u2019s relations feature<\/a> allows you to connect, create, and edit related items just on the editing page of posts, Custom Content Type (CCT)<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>items, users, and taxonomies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can also add meta fields<\/a> to the relations to store additional information about the connected items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dynamic Widgets<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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As an example, we will connect actors to movies with the \u2018role\u2019 meta field storing character name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"relations<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Creating a relation<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We create the \u201cMovies\u201d and \u201cActors\u201d Custom Post Types (CPTs)<\/strong><\/a> and set the relation<\/strong><\/a> between them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our case, we choose the \u201cMany to many\u201d Relation Type<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>as we want to connect the actor with several movies in which they\u2019ve played, and the movie with the cast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, we enable the Register controls for parent object<\/strong>, Allow to create new children from parent<\/strong>, Allow to delete children from parent<\/strong>, Register controls for child object<\/strong>, Allow to create new parents from children<\/strong>, and Allow to delete parents from children<\/strong> toggles. With these settings, we can add and remove actors on the movie post editing page and vice versa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adding a meta field to the relation<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Then, we unroll the Meta Fields <\/strong>tab and press the \u201cNew Field<\/strong>\u201d button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We add a meta field for the actor\u2019s role with the \u201cText<\/a>\u201d type that will contain the same information for the \u201cActors\u201d and \u201cMovies\u201d Post Types<\/strong>, so it\u2019s convenient to create it once in relation than adding two separate fields to each CPT<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After that, the \u201cAdd Relation<\/strong>\u201d button can be clicked to save the settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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