Entity Type Relationship Details (tgerm3100s000)

Use this session to display and maintain the entity relationship details.

Data Entity Relationship

A reason of relevance for associating entities of one or two entity types.

Version

A group of model items that share some characteristics, such as the customer, owner, and effective date.

Description

The description or name of the version.

From Entity Type

The first entity type in the entity relationship.

Example

The entity relationship between an order and an order line is a 1:N relationship. An order is related to one or more order lines. Vice versa, an order line is related to only one order. In this entity relationship the order is the first entity type.

fnnt.desc

The description or name of the entity type.

To Entity Type

The second entity type in the entity relationship.

Example

The entity relationship between an order and an order line is a 1:N relationship. An order is related to one or more order lines. Vice versa, an order line is related to only one order. In this entity relationship, the order line is the second entity type.

Description From - To

The description that identifies the from-to relationship. The description must be a verb in the third person singular.

Example

An order is detailed by one or more order lines. For this relationship the From-To description is: is detailed by.

  • if the relationship is a horizontal line with the name located above, then the diagram should be read from left to right. If the name is located underneath, then the diagram should be read from right to left.
  • if the relationship is a vertical line with the name located on the left, then the diagram should be read from top to bottom. If the name is on the right, then the diagram is read from the bottom up.
Description To - From

The description used to identify the to-from relationship. The description must be a verb in the third person singular.

Example

An order line details an order. For this relationship, the To-From description is: details.

  • if the relationship is a horizontal line with the name located above, then the diagram should be read from left to right. If the name is located underneath, the diagram should be read from right to left.
  • if the relationship is a vertical line with the name located on the left, then the diagram should be read from top to bottom. If the name is on the right, then the diagram is read from the bottom up.
Expired

If this check box is selected, the entity-type relationship has expired as the version it is in is no longer valid.

Relationship is Subtype

If this check box is selected, the entity-type relationship is a subtype relationship.

Physical Database Relation exists

If this check box is selected, the entity-type relationship is between entity types that have tables from the ERP data dictionary linked to them.

Associative Table

An entity type that is used to link two other entity types that have a many-to-many relationship between them.

table.desc

The description or name of the associative table.

Relationship Category

A division within a system of classification. Most model items can be categorized.

Description

The description or name of the category.

Min Cardinality From - To

A specification of the number of possible entities per entity type of a pairing.

Infinite

If this check box is selected, the maximum from-to relationship is infinite.

Min Cardinality To - From

A specification of the number of possible entities per entity type of a pairing.

Infinite

If this check box is selected, the maximum to-from relationship is infinite.

Owner

The login of the owner.

user.name

The name of the owner.

Generation Date

By default, the date when the entity relationship was generated. However, any authorized BAAN user can change the date into another date.

Text

If this check box is selected, text is available that provides you with further information about the entity relationship.

Date

The date when the latest change was made to the entity-type relationship.

Last Change Time

The time when the latest change was made to the entity-type relationship.

User

The login of the BAAN user who made the latest change to the entity-type relationship.

User

The name of the BAAN user who made the latest change to the entity-type relationship.