Help! Querying Relationship on CPT Template

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I need help please, with querying an ACF relationship field on a single CPT template.

Here’s the scenario:
I have two Custom Post Types (CPTs) - “Branches” and “Services”. These two CPTs are linked by an ACF relationship field, allowing me to choose which services are related to a branch and vice versa.
The “Services” CPT has a taxonomy called “Service Category”, which includes categories like Massages, Facials, Nail Care, etc. This structure allows me to group the service posts.

I’ve created a single template for the “Branches” post type. On this template, I aim to display the “Service Category” taxonomy and list the related services linked to a branch under the taxonomy.

The problem:
As depicted in the photo, the relationship loop is displaying, but it’s showing for all the taxonomies. The service posts were properly assigned to their respective taxonomy in the backend.

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Thank you so much.

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So a branch is a location. That’s simple.

Your list makes it look like Foot Massage is a service in the Massage category. Am I following that correctly?

I don’t think you can build your list w/o a custom function. The data flow is wrong.

  • You have the branch.
  • You use the branch to get the related services.
  • When you loop thru the services, you only have access to 1 service’s taxonomy terms at a time.

So you could make a list of the services with the category.

You have to juggle some data to make this list the way you want it. You have an array of services each with a related category. You need an array of categories with related services.

I’d loop thru the services to build an array like

$categories => array(
    'massages' => array(
        'foot',
        'elbow'
    ),
    'facials' => array(
        'classic facial',
        'something else'
    )
)

Doable but custom.