Provisioning Tool Guide

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Configuring a Relationship

When you configure a relationship between business entities, you create a relationship between two base objects. Create a relationship between two business entities in the Provisioning tool.

Click

Business Entity

Modeling

From the

Modeling

list, select

Relationships

, and then click

Create

The fields that you must configure appear in the

Properties

panel.

In the Properties panel, specify the following relationship properties:

Property	Description
Name	Unique name for the relationship.
Label	Label for the relationship that appears in the Data Director user interface.
Description	A meaningful description for the relationship.
Display name	Name that appears in the Entity layout.
Bidirectional	Indicates whether the direction of the relationship goes both ways.
State management enabled	Indicates whether state management is enabled.

From the

Base object

list, select a base object from the MDM schema that will maintain the relationship between the two base objects.

In the

Parent Business Entity

list, select the base object, which is the first entity in the relationship.

In the

Parent constraint

field, select the column to which the foreign key points.

From the

Child Business Entity

list, select the base object, which is the second entity in the relationship.

The

Parent Business Entity

and the

Child Business Entity

specify the direction of the relationship.

In the

Child constraint

field, select the column to which the foreign key points.

Optionally, if you want to show the labels on the UI, select the

Label format

check box and specify the following properties:

Property	Description
Exists format	Title that appears when you view the relationship.
No fields format	Title to display when all the fields in the Exists Format have NULL values.

Click

Apply

The relationship appears in the root node panel.

To add additional attributes for the relationship, specify the fields that will appear in the user interface when creating or viewing the relationship:

Select

field

under the tree node, and click

Create

Specify the following properties:

Property	Description
Name	Name for the field.
Label	Display name for the field in the user interface.
Read only	Indicates whether the field is read only.
Required	Indicates whether you must specify the field when you create a relationship.
URI	URI for where your custom data types are defined, if you want to associate a custom data type with the business entity field,
Type	Name of the custom data type that you define in the URI. Used with the URI property.
Column	Business entity field.
Searchable	Indicates whether the field is searchable. If you enable the Searchable property, the Searchable Configuration fields appear.
Filter	Regulates the data that users can enter in the field. If you enable the Filter property, the properties related to filter behavior appear. Specify the filter behavior property and the filtered value.
Operator	Specify IN to ensure that filter values are the only values allowed in the field. Specify NOT_IN to ensure that filter values are not allowed in the field.
Value	Filter value.

Click

Apply

Repeat Steps

for each field you want to add as additional attribute to the relationship.

The following image shows a sample business entity relationship configuration with fields for additional attributes:

Business entity relationship configuration with a fields for the attributes.

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