Problem displaying 2 levels of Related records

The topic is so complicated, I cant understand what work and what not. Can you give a link where I see what write above with bugs screenshots.

Hard to understand your application. Sounds like an "infinite loop" ;-) Can you describe it any further?

The basic concept is that I want site visitors to see the content in TypeA records. TypeA records are related by a common attribute (TypeB). When viewing TypeA full article view, I then want to show the list of TypeB attribute values with links to their associated TypeA records.

I can see how this could easily turn into an infinite loop, but I only want to show two levels.

From the site visitor point of view... they have come to see some content. After reading the content, they look to the attribute list at the bottom of the article to see other records to go to.

I haven't done the full analysis, but I expect site maintenance to be simpler as each new TypeA record only needs to be linked to the appropriate TypeB records, then the Relationship fields will take care of the rest. Honestly I'm too new to Cobalt to really understand the implications around what I'm proposing, but I've got the workflow mapped out and it all makes sense in my head :-)

Not sure what are "attributes" in your case... and how is the relation created? Manually? (hence ReadAlso field) Or do you bind A to B by a certain field-value? Since you are talking of artcile full-views... did you have a look at "Records Fields"? It allows to display related articles and more stuff automatically.

Thanks pepperstreet. I had a look at both of those fields in theory only at this stage.

The relationship of Ax to Bx is created manually at the time of creating record Ax. So if there were already 4 typeA records (A1 to A4) linked to B1, viewing any of the typeA records would show B1 and links to all 4 typeA records.

Adding record A5, linked to B1, would then show a link to A5 on all pages for records A1 to A5.

Hopefully Sergey will let me know if what I'm trying to do is technically possible, otherwise I'll play with the other fields to try and get the same effect.

The relationship of Ax to Bx is created manually at the time of creating record Ax.

BTW, a new relation from A -> B is done via selection on your submission form! So, childs of type B have to exist. During submission of Type A, it is not possible to create a new type B.

The "add new" and "add existing" buttons are available AFTER type A is saved. The visibility of those actions can be controlled for list and full-view. And for a certain J! ACL.

The relationship of Ax to Bx is created manually at the time of creating record Ax.

Adding record A5, linked to B1, would then show a link to A5 on all pages for records A1 to A5.

Not sure, if i got the idea... in general relations show-up on both sides.

If you relate A5 and B1, the other Type A records do not get this information. A5 has only one connection... and B1 record has multiple connections to other A records. So, B shows every A record relations. (according to the limit parameter).

BTW, the child field has extra parameters to allow "multiple parents"! If this is important for you.

Yes, I manually create the Bx record (if it doesn't already exist, without filling in the relation field) then create the Ax record with the relation to Bx.

The basic structure I'm looking for is shown in the following rough sketch:

Thanks for you help pepperstreet. It may simply come down to me misunderstanding some configuration, or perhaps I'm trying to do something that doesn't technically make sense in Cobalt. Hopefully I can at least explain clearly what I'm trying to achieve.

Relate fields are limited to 1 level depth only to avoid loops. There is no way to change it.

Thanks for clarifying Sergey.

Does what I explained make sense?

Is there a possibility for two levels in future? In my mind this would be an extremely powerful automatic cross-referencing feature.

What you want to achieve make of course sense. And may be we will add ability to limit inclusion level. But anyway this is very complex algorithms тв we will be able to add it only in Cobalt 9.

As always, great work and customer service. Thanks Sergey.