# Relationships between Collections

**URL:** <https://community.sitejet.io/t/relationships-between-collections/239>\
**Category:** Website Builder Request\
**Created:** [June 5, 2021, 6:21am UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/relationships-between-collections/239 "2021-06-05T06:21:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Lucian\_Dinu](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.sitejet.io/lucian_dinu/32/141_2.png) [@Lucian\_Dinu](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Lucian_Dinu)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2021, 6:21am UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/relationships-between-collections/239/1 "2021-06-05T06:21:23Z")

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Hi,  
Currently there is no way to create a relationship between collections 1to1, 1toMany or ManyToMany.

Here is an example.

1. Let’s say I have 2 Collections: Authors, Books
2. I would like to have a Reference field (Book-Author) in the Books collection to point to an existing Autor Item

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**Author:** ![Andre](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.sitejet.io/andre/32/3459_2.png) [@Andre](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Andre)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/relationships-between-collections/239/2 "2021-06-10T15:48:34Z")

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Hey mate, could this maybe help?

> **[Collection Filters - Sitejet Help](https://help.sitejet.io/article/822-collection-filters)**
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> Collection Filters On pages with a "Collection Container", "URL Filter" can be used to filter the displayed entries in the Collection Container, for example due

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**Author:** ![Lucian\_Dinu](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.sitejet.io/lucian_dinu/32/141_2.png) [@Lucian\_Dinu](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Lucian_Dinu)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/relationships-between-collections/239/3 "2021-06-10T16:41:26Z")

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Hi Andre,  
Thanks for your suggestion, but … I’m not referring to a way to filter a collection.

I’m referring to a way to connect items from different Collections similar to:

> **[Reference field | Webflow University](https://university.webflow.com/lesson/reference-field)**
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> Use reference fields to connect items from different Collections.https://youtu.be/mmWtjy7PQOg

or…

> **[ACF | Relationship](https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/relationship/)**
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> Description The Relationship field provides a duel-column component to select one or more posts, pages or custom post type items. This field type provides

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**Author:** ![Wilson\_Yang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/48db29/32.png) [@Wilson\_Yang](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Wilson_Yang)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 1:19pm UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/relationships-between-collections/239/4 "2021-08-23T13:19:45Z")

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This is an issue for me as well. How did you handle nested collection?

Putting a collection within a CMS datatype field of a collection?

Authors and books.

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**Author:** ![Luke\_O\_Brien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/aca169/32.png) [@Luke\_O\_Brien](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Luke_O_Brien)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 2:38am UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/relationships-between-collections/239/5 "2021-11-02T02:38:32Z")

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Any luck with this one? I’m surprised more users aren’t running into trouble with this? Seems like a very needed feature for collections

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**Author:** ![Wilson\_Yang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/48db29/32.png) [@Wilson\_Yang](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Wilson_Yang)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 3:42pm UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/relationships-between-collections/239/6 "2022-03-31T15:42:41Z")

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Almost 6 months passed, any progress made?

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**Author:** ![Andre](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.sitejet.io/andre/32/3459_2.png) [@Andre](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Andre)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 11:38am UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/relationships-between-collections/239/7 "2022-04-01T11:38:03Z")

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Hey @Wilson_Yang - this is still considered just a feature request. I am happy to add your voice to the request to push it upwards in the development line.

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**Author:** ![Joaquin\_Olivas](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.sitejet.io/joaquin_olivas/32/2610_2.png) [@Joaquin\_Olivas](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Joaquin_Olivas)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 8:13pm UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/relationships-between-collections/239/8 "2023-11-27T20:13:19Z")

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+1 I need this to post/author and “recommended posts” between posts