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I was too quick to ask this question. One of my fields was a Yes/No label with custom labels. The json file was all lower case while the pods was defined with the first letter capitalized.

Thank you for your patience Jim!

This is what I’m trying to accomplish:

I’m building a website for a university program. On this webpage, students must submit their master thesis. A master thesis can be written by either 1 or 2 authors and depending on the number of authors, there has to be an equal number of “opponents” AKA “external examiners”. I have created a pod for this which I call Project. The authors are of course decided as soon as the project is started and the opponents/external examiners can be decided at any point in time (as long as it’s before the actual presentation of said thesis).

I also want to be able to announce free time slots were students then can present their master thesis in front of their supervisor, an external examiner and anyone else that might be interested. I’ve created a pod for this as well called Presentation. I want time slots that have no authors assigned to it to be presented under a header called “Available time slots” and as soon as an author has been assigned to it, I want the pod to be displayed elsewhere under a header called “Upcoming presentations”. This pod contains Presenter (one of the authors) Opponent (one of the external examiners), a date/time and a place.

What I need help achieving is the following:

Students register a master thesis.
6 months later, one of the authors decides which of the available Presentation times that suits them the best and sends in a booking request.
Said master thesis is manually assigned to a Presentation, as well as one of the authors and one of the opponents.
Repeat for author 2 (if there is one).

I want this to be as easy as possible to do from the WordPress admin panel. Once a booking request has been sent to the webmaster, he or she should be able to choose from the master theses yet to be assigned a Presentation. I then want to be able to choose one of the authors as well as one of the opponents/external examiners to be linked to this pod as well.

I understand that I might be back at the XY Problem, although I hope I included enough background information this time to make it more clear what I actually want to accomplish here.

Hi Jim,

thank you for your fast answer.

Since you’re managing all of the Authors and Opponents through your Project post type, the relationship field from Presentation to Project would be what you would display the Author and Opponents through.

In my case, though, I want Presentator from Presentation to be able to display options from both Author 1 and Author 2 since every author needs to have their own presentation, the same goes for Opponent as well.

And yes, excuse me. When I say autopopulate I of course mean display. Thank you for your help!

Interested in this as well.