Relationships: show relationships between two things that are not siblings

How are you currently specifying the relationship with Playa? It sounds like these other entries are manually curated with a separate “related interest” field? If that’s the case, then the native relationships definitely have you covered and will be more performant than Playa.

Currently I’m not associating the entries in Playa at all, other than selecting individual entries to be related to other individual entries. (I know that I was using a small amount of Playa’s capabiilties, but…that’s what worked for me.) I wasn’t entirely sure that the native EE relationships tag would do what I wanted it to, but it appears that it will work. Thanks!

…now to figure out if/how I can replace the functionality of the Tag module - just so that I can use the basic EE functionality to its fullest…

Options for Tag depend on how you’re using it / what you need in terms of taxonomy. That said, Tag is compatible with ExpressionEngine 3 so there’s no need to move away from that solution if you don’t want to.

I’ve added a Relationships field to my channel’s fieldset, and now…I’m trying to figure out how to code it into my templates. The examples are for parents or siblings…not for the entries that I’ve chosen. I’m not sure which example to follow?

The channel entry that sets the relationship is the “parent”, and the “related interest” entries are the children, so you can just use the relationship field’s name as a pair like this.

Except all of these entries are in the same channel. (It has never made sense to me to break all of my content up into different channels, so…I don’t.) There are no parents, there are no children. All siblings…kind of.

I think I need to use a combination of the Multiple Entries that you just showed me, and…some siblings syntax?

Doesn’t matter if it’s the same channel, you still have a parent (entry) / child (related items) relationship. Siblings are all of the child related items of a given parent.

I have my template working, I have entries related (by me manually choosing specific entries in the Related Entries field), I have the template displaying the images/links like I want…but I’m not seeing the entries I manually chose to be related. I’m seeing many more entries, and I’m not 100% sure how they’re being chosen.

Here’s the code I have in my template:

...lots of other template code, omitted for brevity...

{siblings field="related_entries" limit="15" orderby="random" status="open|Featured"}
      <figure><a href="http://{url_title_path=" rel="noopener canonical" target="_top">http://images.sparklecrackcentral.com/clear.gif</a>

      <figcaption><a href="http://{url_title_path=" rel="noopener canonical" target="_top">{siblings:title}</a></figcaption></figure>
{/siblings}

I read through the documentation, but I don’t understand how to limit the displayed siblings, to ONLY the entries that I manually selected as related, in the CP Entry form’s Related Entries field.

Please see my response and link above. You are not looking for siblings, you are looking for children, so you would just use the relationship field’s normal variable tag pair.

It looks like you say that I should use the relationship_field tag pair instead of the siblings tag pair. So I tried switching that in my template code: (and my template code is not rendering right in this field…)

<div id="related">{relationship_field field="related_entries" limit="15" orderby="random" status="open|Featured"}
      <figure><a href="http://{url_title_path=%27obsessive/addictions%27}" rel="noopener canonical" target="_top">http://images.sparklecrackcentral.com/clear.gif</a>

      <figcaption><a href="http://{url_title_path=%27obsessive/addictions%27}" rel="noopener canonical" target="_top">{relationship_field:title}</a></figcaption></figure>
{/relationship_field}</div>

But now the display of related entries is working…even less well than before. I’m not seeing any of the related entries that I chose.

http://www.sparklecrackcentral.com/such/obsessive/addictions/concrete_minerals_flame_collection_kit

What is the name of your relationship field? Is it related_entries?

Yes, the field name of my relationship field is

related_entries

When I used the above code in my template, but used the siblings tag pair (instead of the

relationships

tag pair), I saw images and titles and links to related entries. Except…it wasn’t ONLY the related entries that I’d manually chosen in the Related Entries field, but almost every other entry in that channel that started with the name “Concrete Minerals”. Which is not what I want.

Give this a shot. Notice that the tag pair uses the field name itself. Please refer to the link in the documentation above as well for prefixing the related entries’ variables within the field’s tag pair.

<div id="related">
 {related_entries limit="15" orderby="random" status="open|Featured"}
  <figure>
   <a href="http://{related_entries:url_title_path=%27obsessive/addictions%27}" rel="noopener canonical" target="_top">http://images.sparklecrackcentral.com/clear.gif</a>

   <figcaption>
    <a href="http://{related_entries:url_title_path=%27obsessive/addictions%27}" rel="noopener canonical" target="_top">{related_entries:title}</a>
   </figcaption>
  </figure>
 {/related_entries}
</div>

That did it! I was reading the documentation, but was just using the example code pretty much as-is. I wasn’t understanding that I needed to substitute in my related-entries field name.