In the BricksLabs Facebook group, a user asks:
I'm learning about ACF relationships and attempting to output a list of posts on any given page, and use the filter - select element in Bricks to refine the output by an ACF relationship field.
Can you recommend BL Tutorials that might help here?
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CPT Downloads: Relationship with one or more Events.
CPT Events: Relationship with one or more Downloads.
Query loop: output all downloads and filter by event.
The built-in Bricks' 'Filter - Select' element does not seem to work with a Relationship-type of field as of Bricks 1.10.3.
We can set up a custom select menu populated with the posts of a CPT and write some custom JavaScript for filtering the posts of another CPT.
This Pro tutorial shows how a custom select menu can be populated with the posts of a CPT that filter the posts of another CPT using JavaScript, where both CPT items are connected via an ACF Relationship field in Bricks.
Consider this example:
CPT 1: EventsRelationship field: Related Downloads
CPT 2: DownloadsRelationship field: Related Events
Events:
Downloads:
Event 1: Download 1, Download 3Event 2: -Event 3: Download 2Event 4: Download 2, Download 3
After implementing the tutorial, a list of downloads that can be filtered by their related events on the downloads CPT archive page (could be a static Page as well):
While this article's custom filter build process is specific to ACF Relationship, the overall process to build a select menu dropdown to filter one set of items with another set of related items is the same.
Step 1
Install and activate ACF.
Create your two custom post types.
Create a field group for each.
Event Fields:
Download Fields:
