Metadata Manager creates relationships between metadata objects when you load metadata for packaged or universal resources. For example, you load metadata for a PowerCenter resource. Metadata Manager creates a parent-child relationship between a port and the transformation that contains the port. In addition, Metadata Manager creates a parent-child relationship between the transformation and the mapping that contains the transformation.

You can create relationships for custom metadata objects. For example, you add a metadata object to a custom resource. The source for the custom metadata object originates in an Oracle resource. You want to view the relationship between the custom metadata object and the Oracle resource in a data lineage diagram. Create a relationship between the objects and run data lineage analysis to view the relationship.

The method you use to create a relationship depends on the number of objects you want to create relationships from: