Relations Between Types, Using relation and Relation Reverse Fields

Lets say that you have 2 Content Types that you need to make a relation between them:

-- Artist Content Type and
-- Album Content Type

or

-- Writer Content Type
-- Book Content Type

You can use fields "Relation" and "Relation Reverse"

1. Create a field of type "Relation" with name "Authored Books" or similar
2. In this field configuration,
   • assign this field to "Book" Content Type
   • this field by default will display a list of links to books, you may want to enrich this list by adding some extra fields e.g. image field of each book, authored date etc
3. Create a field of type "Relation Reverse" with name "Authored By" or similar

4. In this field configuration

   • assign this field to "Writer" Content Type
   • set parameter Reverse field to be "Authored Books"
   • this field by default will display a list of links to books, you may want to enrich this list by adding some extra fields

-- Now your items of type "Writer" will show a list of links to "Books" (with e.g. images)

-- Now your items of type "Book" will link back to their "Writer"

NOTE: Since r1635+ you can use custom HTML and other fields replacements to make a rich list of related items !!!