Adding an item name to a relationship field in keystone.js

You cant make it save like this with Keystone yet but you can make it so that you pass the object as you want to your jade template.

You just need to 'populate' the relationship field as per mongoose / mongodb functionality.

**So your businessUnit model might look like this:

var keystone = require('keystone');var Types = keystone.Field.Types;var BusinessUnit = new keystone.List('BusinessUnit', {    autokey: { from: 'name', path: 'key', unique: true },    plural: 'BusinessUnits'});BusinessUnit.add({    name: { type: String, required: true },});   BusinessUnit.relationship({ ref: 'Title', path: 'title', refPath: 'businessUnit' }); BusinessUnit.register();

Your Title model as above

var keystone = require('keystone'),Types = keystone.Field.Types;var Title = new keystone.List('Title');Title.add({  name: { type: String, required: true, initial: true },  room: { type: Types.Relationship, initial: true, required: true, ref: 'Screening', addNew: false },  businessUnit: { type: Types.Relationship, initial: true, required: true, ref: 'BusinessUnit', addNew: false }});Title.defaultSort = '-createdAt';Title.defaultColumns = 'name, room';Title.register();

The important part of your controller might look like this

//Get all Titles with their nested businessUnits.view.on('init', function(next) {  keystone.list('Title').model.find()  .populate('businessUnit')  .exec(function(err, results) {    if(err) {      console.log(err);      return next(err);    } else {      locals.data.titlesWithNestedBusinessUnits = results;      next(err);    }  });});

As a side note this will only work one level deep as per the .populate methods capabilities. If you want to go several deep (pretty inefficient) you can use mongoose deep populate . https://github.com/buunguyen/mongoose-deep-populate.