'My Related projects' is broken, displaying same 2 projects on every page

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Hello,

‘My Related projects’ is broken it is supposed to show other work or the next project pulling from the CMS list. It’s displaying the same 2 projects on every project page.

One thing to note: I wanted to change the order of my projects, so I added an order field to the cms, as per some direction in a tutorial. - Worked great. Not sure if this has had a knock-on to the related pages.

This is the template I’m working with
https://fropie.webflow.io/project/invitation-stationery-envelope

The template providers never answer any questions or emails…

Can someone help, please.

Thanks in advance : )

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Hi there,

To help troubleshoot issues with related projects and Collection items, please provide more details about:

  • The specific Collection List settings you’re using
  • How your Collection items are structured
  • The relationship between your projects
  • What you’re seeing versus what you expect to see

In the meantime, you might want to check these common areas:

  • Collection List filter settings
  • Reference field configurations
  • CMS Collection relationships
  • Sort settings in your Collection Lists

Hopefully this helps! If you still need assistance, please reply here so somebody from the community can help.

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Thank you, I went over again some of the videos I’ve watched and I totally I’ve fixed it! Was pretty simple, I applied some settings to the collections list. Thank you so much!

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Hi, I think I spoke to soon, I’m able to apply a filter collections list, initially I set it to numerical order, adding the page number for the next project, I added this to all the project pages, and it was changing on the page as I was doing it thinking this was correct showing the next project in the order, however unless there is a delay updating, the same two projects stay the same on all the project pages from the last numerical update I have done. I tested ‘random order’ and it’s the same problem.

So to recap, I can apply settings to the filters, and set what I want to see on the page I’m editing, but it’s the same problem; regardless of the setting, it still displays the same 2 projects on all over the project pages…

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Depends on what you want.
If your goal is simply to encourage exploration, and you want related projects then the common way is;

  • Collection list pointing to projects
  • Filter to the same category as the current item
    • OR, each item directly defines its related projects, and that multiref field is what you link your related project collection list to
  • Sorted randomly
  • Limited to 2 items in your design

If instead you want a next/previous navigation across an entire set of products, you’ll need a solution that can determine that.

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Hiya, thanks for your reply. The collection is pointing to projects. Random sorting also does not work, will try filter…

Thanks Michael

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Random sorting works fine but with Webflow’s CDN architecture it only re-randomizes every 12 hours.