Relationship app
By Andrew Heritage on Sunday, 19 October 2014
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Ok so I guess I understand how relationships are designed to work in ES. Unfortunately the problem I have is the list of relationships is a little lacking (you don't have civil union, domestic partnership, cohabiting or polyamerous !) It looks like that even though I set the unique key to RELATIONSHIP I probably need to set the relevant answers to something special for this to work? Is there any information on how to get this to work? (ok so I realise polyamerous may be a bit "out there" but others such as civil union and domestic parthership really are suprising to have been missed out.)
Hello Andrew,

Sorry but I don't quite get your questions here. What you see in the relationship field is fixed and there is no way to customize this unless you customize the field. You can only enable / disable relationship types as shown here, http://screen.stackideas.com/2014-10-19_2227.png .

You can't actually create a dropdown field and just use it as a relationship field. Dropdown field only serves as a dropdown field and it doesn't perform anything fancy.
Mark
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Sunday, 19 October 2014 22:28
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Hello Andrew,

Please feel free to submit feature requests in our voices area at http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial At the mean time, if you try to set a relation with another user on the site, they will need to approve it first before it get's confirmed. For instance, if you set that you are in a relationship with userX, then userX needs to approve this first.
Mark
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Sunday, 19 October 2014 18:31
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Hi and yes, well add it to "voices" as perhaps the rleationship system could do with a bit of a re-vamp to make it more flexible (it does look a bit 'hard code cludged at present IMHO :-) )

My question though is if it is possible to make the existing Relationship system work since if I change it to "in a relationship" I don't even get the box to say who I'm in a relationship with.

I'm guessing this is because rather than using the built in relationship field type, I created a dropdown list with all the types of relationship in and set the unique key to RELATIONSHIP. I'm wondering if I need to put particular text in the choices box so the relationship app will then know which answers mean the person is in a relationship (i.e. what is the mapping system.)

Hope that makes sense.
Andrew Heritage
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Sunday, 19 October 2014 21:00
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Ok no problem, I guess I was hoping it was more flexible than it currently is. Will put in a feature request :-)
Andrew Heritage
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Monday, 20 October 2014 00:23
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Thanks Andrew
Mark
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Monday, 20 October 2014 00:43
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I have added it as a feature request but didn't seem to be anyway to add an image to explain it better - a picture is worth a thoudand words and all that! So perhaps I'm "cheating the system" but have attached an image here to explain!
Andrew Heritage
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Monday, 20 October 2014 01:28
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Thanks Andrew
Mark
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Monday, 20 October 2014 09:59
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