Relationship

The Relationship field allows relating content to other content, similar to hyperlinks (links) on the internet, and is especially useful for creating press kits, print packages, and landing pages by adding related visual content. For a press kit, you can link the hero image and the Logo.

Relationship Overview

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Behavior	VIDEO: How Relationship Behaves You select Content Items based on the Query Filter of the Field. On assignment, you must provide information about the relationship between the assigned and the original content. The underlying relationship schema defines which relationship information you must provide.
Pre-Requirement	Before creating a Relationship Field, you must create the schema used for providing information about the relationship. This schema shows up when assigning a Content Item in this field.
Parent-Child Setup	You can create a schema "Relationship" following a parent-child setup. When you connect your Relationship schema to the Relationship field, the parent-child hierarchy is ignored. If you connect the Relationship field to a parent, you will only see fields on the parent. If you connect the Relationship field to a child, you will only see fields on the child, no propagated fields from the parent.
Batch Actions: Download all related Content Items Add all related Content Items to basket	Related content items can be downloaded all together or placed all together in the basket for further processing, e.g., editing or sharing. Additionally, each individual item can be downloaded directly or added to the basket.
Limitation	Relationship Fields are not available in Batch Editor! You can not edit a single or multi relationship in the Batch Editor batch edit mode (only in single edit), nor Excel Roundtripping App. You can easily edit them via API. Furthermore, Content Items or List Items cannot be sorted based on Relationship fields. You cannot add Relationship Fields to filters in the Content Browser or List Browser. Important to note is that you can set the search settings (search, index) on the relationship field. However, the Content Browser search only delivers results for the Content Item, whose metadata matches the search. The Content Browser does not deliver related Content Items.
Display pattern	Picturepark does not use the Display Pattern on the Relationship Schema. All relationship information in the view mode of a Content Item is hard-coded and does not consider Display Patterns.
Single Relationship	One item can be related. Examples are: one employee image for a person one hero shot for a campaign one logo for a company
Multi Relationship	Multiple items can be related. Examples are: different angles of a product (e.g., front view, top view, side view) featured images in press kits screenshots for FAQ related or featured products
Display & Handling	The relationship field items are displayed as a list or thumbnails small or medium. The elements can be re-arranged if you have edit permissions on the Content Item and view permissions on the related Content Items.
Permissions	Inside a relationship field, the Content Item permissions apply. For example, if you have a user who cannot view a Content Item in a relationship field, they will get this view: However, double-clicking on that field will allow them to view the relationship details - when the layer is visible thanks to the "view for all" permission on the relationship schema.
Examples	On a Content item for a product, you might have a Relationship field for product photos. In your relationship schema for this field, you might have a single field for "View" that is, in turn, assigned to a List that provides the values Front, Top, and Side. When a user relates a photo to the product Content Item, the field for "View" would appear, enabling the user to define the context of the related image. When the Content Item was published, this contextual information would be available. VIDEO: How to use the Relationship field for storing different product views. Another valid approach is to use the Relationship field to relate creative files. Whether you are linking the zip package or individual files is up to you. VIDEO: How to Use Relationship for linking creative files In addition, your relationship schema could include fields for Caption or any other context information about the related content.

Relationship Value Handling

Picturepark Setup Example	Layer: Corporate Information (ID: CorporateInformation) Field: Corporate Logo (ID: corporateLogo)
Fieldpath	corporateInformation.corporateLogo
Advanced search for field	_exists_:corporateInformation.corporateLogo Finds all Content Items with a Logo assigned in the Relationship Field "Corporate Logo."
Use in Display Pattern	Page: Display Pattern: Relationship (Solutions) — Relationship fields are used to link content together. There is no use case for adding relationship information to Display Patterns as the related Content Items cannot be previewed. You shouldn’t use relationship fields in Display Pattern.
Returned field value options	Single: targetId (related item) targetDocType (type of related item, e.g. content) relationType (Id of the relation selected) sourceDocType (original item) Field ID from relationship schema Value in field Multi: Array targetId (related item) targetDocType (type of related item, e.g. content) relationType (Id of the relation selected) sourceDocType (original item) Field ID from relationship schema Value in field
Returned field value	The field itself does not return values. You must access the individual values per option (e.g., data.corporateInformation.corporateLogo.mediaType) Specific field value in single: data.LAYER.FIELDID._targetId Specific field value in multi: data.LAYER.FIELDID[0]._targetId

Relationship Field Settings

Name	The Name setting is available for various items in Picturepark, for example, fields, schemas, and business rules. This value defines what appears in the Picturepark interface. You can change the name anytime and translate it into any configured metadata language. To add a translation for the name, select Add. IDs and Names need to be the same or at least have the same meaning. Sentence-style capitalization, for example, Media type and not Media Type. Schema names in plural, for example, products, events, persons for lists. No numbers at the beginning of the ID (mediaType2 is correct but not 2MediaType)
ID	The ID field is the ID of your field, which is used to link to this field. The field ID is always lowercase. The field's ID is set when creating a new field using camel casing. You need the field ID for the configuration of filters or display patterns. The ID is automatically created from the name you insert: Example: You insert the field name "My NeW fielDs #1 Purpose? Automatic Id: myNeWFielDs1Purpose You can open the Display Pattern Editor to see the JSON of a Content Item.
Single item relationship	Allow one or multiple data entries into the Relationship Field. You cannot change this setting once saved.
Relationship name	The name of the relationship you create when assigning a Content Item.
Relation ID	Constructed from the name by removing spaces and special characters. This setting is relationType.
Relationship type	The type of items you can assign in the Relationship Field. Currently limited to Content Items only. This setting is the targetDocType.
Relation	The underlying schema used to insert information about the relation, e.g., a schema with two fields for legend title and description, which you must fill out when relating a hero shot. An empty relationship schema can be used to relate content to each other without providing further information about the related content. The relationship schema can be extended at a later stage if needed.
Item filter	Limit the Content Items available for selection by using a filter, e.g., only show logos.
Minimum	Only whole numbers (integers) are supported. By adding a minimum value, you set the field required.
Maximum	Setting the maximum value to 1 turns a multi-item relationship into a single-item relationship; however, we recommend choosing a single item relationship instead.
Required	This ensures that at least one item is always related e.g. for press kits the hero shot or the logo. The minimum value fulfills the same purpose, but we recommend using the correct required flag for the desired required option.
UI required	The UI required field setting determines whether or not an editor must provide a field value to save the Content Item in the UI. If a field is UI required and the user has not provided a value or deleted the existing value, Content Platform does not permit saving the item in the UI. This value can be changed at any time. The UI required field setting is unavailable for checkboxes, trigger fields, or dynamic view fields.
Default view	Select the default view for related items: List Thumbnail small Thumbnail medium Thumbnail large
Show related content on download	Show the related Content Items in the download window. Show related content on download is not available for List Schemas.
List view maximum rows	Select the maximum rows that should be displayed in the list view. The default is set to 4.
Thumbnail view maximum rows	Select the maximum rows that should be displayed in the thumbnail view. The default is set to 2.
Include in filters	Picturepark uses indexing settings from the relation schema. Keep in mind that Picturepark does not index metadata of the related content e.g. all the Product Information or an assigned Media Type. Only the relationship information given on the assignment of a Content Item is indexed.
Include in search	Keep in mind that Picturepark does not index metadata of the related content e.g., all the Product Information or an assigned Media Type. Only the relationship information given on the assignment of a Content Item is indexed.
Boost value	The Boost factor field setting will boost the values in the search and help you define the relevance of the content for your users. The boost parameter increases the relative weight of a term (with higher boost values) or decreases the relative weight (with lower boost values), but the increase or decrease is not linear. In other words, a boost of 2 does not result in double the score. You can select between 1, 10, 25, 50, 100, or 500. Boosting in a list is for the search in fields while tagging. Boosting in layers is for the content browser search. Picturepark checks this setting against the allowed number of Search-indexed fields in your subscription plan. While it may be tempting to include all fields in filters and simple search boosting them, you may revisit this idea based on your subscription plan limit.