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I’m a little confused on the relationship field type.

I have a channel setup, and one of the channel fields is an “author” this field is set as a relationship to another channel of the authors. However it’s rather difficult when listing the main channel to filter it and show the entries for a particular author. My current method is a convoluted reverse entry method using another embed file, and it ends up breaking pagination.

is there a simple way to do this?

Thanks,

Jamie

Hi Jamie,

I hear ya, relationships between entries can be confusing to try to wrap your brain around. I think what you’re looking for is reverse related entries. What you essentially want to do is show the one entry for your author and then list all the entries that use that author as their relationship field, right? So using the doc’s example as the basis for an example here, the template code for this might look like:

{exp:channel:entries channel="authors" limit="1"}
        <h2>{title}</h2>
<p>        {author_bio}</p>

<p>        {reverse_related_entries sort="desc" orderby="title"}<br />
                </p><h3>{title}</h3>
<p>                {body}<br />
        {/reverse_related_entries}<br />
{/exp:channel:entries}

Then the author is that is display by the main channel entries tag is determined based on information in the URL. Does that all make sense?

Ya i’ve tried that and it works, but the functionality you loose is kind of a deal breaker. Pagination being a major part of it.

Yep, unfortunately, reverse related entries does have a limited feature set compared to a full channel entries tag.

Have you checked into using something with a bit more robust functionality like Playa?