Global Join Manager

The Global Join Manager displays all global joins in your Infor CRM database, and permits the system administrator or administrative user to add, edit, and delete global joins as necessary. A global join is permanent and exists from session to session in the Query Builder data tree structure.

Note: Only the System Administrator can work on Global Join Manager.

Infor CRM contains a series of predefined global joins (called system joins), which cannot be deleted. Anyone can use these predefined global joins by selecting a field in the Query Builder and clicking the Global Join button. If a predefined join exists for this field, the option to view it displays in the shortcut menu as "Global Join To" with a table name specified.

The Global Join Manager is available only if you are logged in as an administrator.

Note:

You must be careful when creating global joins, as it is possible to create a global join that can cause system performance problems.
By default, the ADDRESS table is joined to the ACCOUNT table via an Inner join. Do not change the properties of this join.

To open the Global Join Manager:

Open Query Builder.
Click the Global Joins button.
This button only appears if you are logged on as Administrator.

The Global Join Manager displays the following fields:


Field	Description
Sys	A system join that cannot be deleted.
1:1	Indicates a one-to-one relationship.
Parent Table, Parent Field	The main table and field in the join relationship.
Child Table, Child Field	The table and field joined to the Parent Table and Parent Field.
Type	The type of join, such as Inner, Left or Right.
Cascade	How records are deleted through the join.
Visibility	How the join displays in Query Builder.