Title: create relationships between users?
Last modified: August 23, 2021

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# create relationships between users?

 *  [jasonjasonjasonjason](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasonjasonjasonjason/)
 * (@jasonjasonjasonjason)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-relationships-between-users/)
 * Is it possible to create relationships between users? Imagine an Alcoholics Anonymous-
   type scenario where some members sponsor other members, and those sponsors also
   have sponsors. Some sponsors have multiple sponsees. Could this be set up in 
   Participants Database?
 * I’m imagining a field that titled “sponsor” that could be linked to another member.
   And another field titled “sponsees” that could be linked to multiple other members.
   But maybe that’s not how databases should be set up? Maybe an entirely different
   table needs to exist to track those relationships? Sorry, my database knowledge
   is pretty rusty.
 * Thank you,
    Jason

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 *  Plugin Author [Roland Barker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/)
 * (@xnau)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-relationships-between-users/#post-14796994)
 * The plugin doesn’t have this kind of capability built into it, you would need
   to create it yourself. It is possible, the plugin provides an [API](https://xnau.com/work/wordpress-plugins/participants-database/participants-database-documentation/participants-database-api/?swcfpc=1)
   that gives you the hooks you need to expand the plugin’s functionality.
 * For example, it is possible to build a selector that provides a list of other
   records in the database so that an association can be established. I have an 
   article that explains how something like this can be done:
 * [Populating Selector Options from the Database ](https://xnau.com/populate-a-form-dropdown-from-the-database/)
    -  This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by [Roland Barker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/).
      Reason: added the link
 *  Thread Starter [jasonjasonjasonjason](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasonjasonjasonjason/)
 * (@jasonjasonjasonjason)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-relationships-between-users/#post-14801767)
 * Thank you.

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-relationships-between-users/#post-14801767)
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