That may sound overly simple for someone who’s been using the software a while, but i don’t think reverse_related_entries can help me here - because I’m using categories, and a category archive loop, which, we all know, don’t play with RevRelE’s.
Instead of creating a “true” native-EE relationship that uses the relationship table and stores a lot of info, I want a field that populates a dropdown from another weblog and only stores the related entry_id. That’s it, that’s all, done deal, good night and good luck.
I currently have a field that I’m populating manually with a number that matches up with an entry id. I’m finding this is MUCH easier to deal with on my template than trying to trick reverse_related_entries into categorical display - I only have to use the weblog:entries built-in search parameter to grab the entries I need. I embed the entries tag with the search parameter, and pass the entry_id to search via an embed variable, and I can output, very easily, all the category archives I could ever need.
1) Is there a built-in way to do this sort of “simple relationship”?
2) Does an extension exist that already does this sort of thing?
3) Is there an easy way (query module?) to get the entry id of the parent from a relationship field? Seems like a simple relationship would be easier. I (and the client) just don’t want to have to enter an ID manually - a dropdown would be perfect.
