<p>It's not possible natively in Craft, but have look at the <a href="https://github.com/page-8/craft-manytomany" rel="nofollow">Many-to-many plugin from Page 8</a>. It might not be exactly what you're after, since it assumes that you have a relationship field in one channel, and the many-to-many field in another. But maybe you can figure out a way to adapt it to your case.</p>

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2014-09-08T11:54:16.103Z
Yeah I tried this. As you say it deals with entries of different types so not useful to me as far as I can tell.
hamishtaplin
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2014-09-10T10:41:19.703Z
Spoke to the creator of this plugin and it's not possible currently.
hamishtaplin
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2014-10-10T16:28:24.757Z
@hamishtaplin But it will be shortly. I'll post an answer to this question when the feature is released.
Peter Tell
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2014-09-08T10:37:00.997Z
2014-09-08T10:37:00.997Z
André Elvan
<p>Iain's Introvert plugin shows the relationship on the child entry as well (reverse related entries).</p>

<p><a href="http://straightupcraft.com/craft-plugins/introvert" rel="nofollow">http://straightupcraft.com/craft-plugins/introvert</a></p>

<p>I haven't used it for Craft yet, but he wrote one for ExpressionEngine that worked well.</p>

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2015-01-15T19:31:58.420Z
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Jim Butts
<p>I have a section 'people' which has several related entries such as 'sibling', 'spouse', 'offspring', etc. When creating a new 'person' the user has to set up these relationships. I understand that's it's possible to easily look up a persons relations in either direction as per <a href="http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/relations" rel="nofollow">http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/relations</a>.</p>

<p>However, is it possible to reflect this in the CMS? So, when a person is related to another via 'spouse' it shows up for <em>both</em> people automatically? Currently, the user would have to do this manually.</p>

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Two-way relations
# Two-way relations

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-09-08)

I have a section 'people' which has several related entries such as 'sibling', 'spouse', 'offspring', etc. When creating a new 'person' the user has to set up these relationships. I understand that's it's possible to easily look up a persons relations in either direction as per <http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/relations>.

However, is it possible to reflect this in the CMS? So, when a person is related to another via 'spouse' it shows up for *both* people automatically? Currently, the user would have to do this manually.

**Tags:** entries, relations

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2014-09-08. Score: 3

It's not possible natively in Craft, but have look at the [Many-to-many plugin from Page 8](https://github.com/page-8/craft-manytomany). It might not be exactly what you're after, since it assumes that you have a relationship field in one channel, and the many-to-many field in another. But maybe you can figure out a way to adapt it to your case.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Yeah I tried this. As you say it deals with entries of different types so not useful to me as far as I can tell.  
> **username_0**: Spoke to the creator of this plugin and it's not possible currently.  
> **username_2**: @hamishtaplin But it will be shortly. I'll post an answer to this question when the feature is released.  

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### Answer by username_3 on 2015-01-15. Score: 2

Iain's Introvert plugin shows the relationship on the child entry as well (reverse related entries).

<http://straightupcraft.com/craft-plugins/introvert>

I haven't used it for Craft yet, but he wrote one for ExpressionEngine that worked well.


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