Title: Relation support for subfields
Last modified: September 28, 2019

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# Relation support for subfields

 *  Resolved [birtakimseyler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birtakimseyler/)
 * (@birtakimseyler)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/relation-support-for-subfields/)
 * **“The field must be at the top level. It cannot be a subfield of a repeater 
   or a flexible content field.”**
 * Hello, Is there any possibility or the roadmap to enable for using relationship
   field in a subfield, specially repeater?
 * Thank you.
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by [birtakimseyler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birtakimseyler/).

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 *  Plugin Author [John Huebner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hube2/)
 * (@hube2)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/relation-support-for-subfields/#post-11978014)
 * The relationship of fields in a repeater is too complex to do this automatically.
   Not only do you need to match up the field, but the repeater and the row or the
   repeater, how do you know what row needs to be updated on the other end, etc,
   etc.
 * Anyone that wants something like this would need to build code specific to their
   use case.
 * I would suggest explaining the details of what you are looking for over on the
   ACF forum and seeing if anyone has done this.
 *  Thread Starter [birtakimseyler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birtakimseyler/)
 * (@birtakimseyler)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/relation-support-for-subfields/#post-11978059)
 * Thank you for your quick reply. I’ve already looked for. But couldn’t find any
   solution.
 * In my project basicly, I should describe the relation what type is.
 * for example, I have two post types, “Actor” and “Case” and I want to describe
   the edges between these two nodes. Like that:
    Actor A → **support** → Case A
   Actor B → **against** → Case A
 * Nevertheless, I would like to say that I am very pleased with this plugin. Thank
   you.
 *  [scottwvw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottwvw/)
 * (@scottwvw)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/relation-support-for-subfields/#post-12349102)
 * Hi
 * Did you ever find a solution to this issue? I have a similar requirement, and
   wondered if there might’ve been a way to achieve it.
 * Thanks
 * Scott
 *  Plugin Author [John Huebner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hube2/)
 * (@hube2)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/relation-support-for-subfields/#post-12349165)
 * In order to do something like this a new field setting would need to be added
   to relationship and post object fields that would allow selection of the field
   to match is with. It is beyond me how you could select a relationship in a repeater
   that matches… not to mention what happens if the rows in the repeater are reordered
   or there is not a matching row on the other end. As I said before, this is far
   too complex for the scope of this plugin and it is likely not even possible.
 *  Thread Starter [birtakimseyler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birtakimseyler/)
 * (@birtakimseyler)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/relation-support-for-subfields/#post-12349436)
 * [@scottwvw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottwvw/)
    Unfortunately I found
   nothing. I’m using without subfields.
    -  This reply was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by [birtakimseyler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birtakimseyler/).

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## Tags

 * [Relationship](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/relationship/)
 * [repeater](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/repeater/)
 * [subfield](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subfield/)

 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [birtakimseyler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birtakimseyler/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/relation-support-for-subfields/#post-12349436)
 * Status: resolved