Single metabox on Reciprocal Relationship

Hi Clayton,

Thanks a lot for your valuable feedback! I didn’t think about the 2 identical meta boxes appear on both sides (since it still works).

I like the idea of adding reciprocal => true to the relationship. It’s simple and easy to understand. My additional thought might be we should let users define only one meta box instead of 2. Would you mind helping me on Github?

Hi Anh,

I suggested a boolean for bi-directional (reciprocal) relationships in this post:

https://metabox.io/support/topic/post-relationships/#post-7797

Hope this helps,
David

Hi Anh,

Excited to see you’ve incorporated Reciprocal Relationships. I’m running into some problems with it, though — I’m getting duplicate relationships listed. Does this look right for registering the relationship?

    MB_Relationships_API::register( array(
        'id'         => 'good_companions',
        'reciprocal' => true,
        'from'       => array(
            'object_type'  => 'post',
            'post_type'    => 'plant',
            'admin_column' => "after title",
            'meta_box'     => array(
                'title' => esc_html__( 'Good Companions', 'gtt-text' ),
            ),
        ),
        'to'         => array(
            'object_type' => 'post',
            'post_type'   => 'plant',
            'meta_box'    => array(
                'hidden' => true,
            ),
        ),
    ) );

This was working for me before, and I’d been able to create the reciprocal relationship using the rwmb_after_save_field hook. I’ve removed that code, but now each time I save a plant post, the list of good_companions gets larger – at first glance, it seems to be adding a new instance of all related plants to the list each time.

For now, I’m rolling back to 1.10.10.