Relationships are associations between two classes or two metadata objects.
You create the following types of relationships in Metadata Manager:
Parent-child relationships between classes within a model
Class-level relationships between custom classes and classes in other models
Object-level relationships between individual metadata objects
You can create relationships when you create a custom model, edit custom classes, or edit custom metadata objects. You cannot create relationships for classes or metadata objects in packaged or universal models.
For example, you can edit a custom metadata class and create a relationship from the custom class to the Oracle Table class. Alternatively, you can edit the custom metadata class and create a relationship to the custom class from the Oracle Table class. However, you cannot edit the Oracle Table class and create a relationship to or from any other metadata class type.