Editing an Association Relationship Instance

With SmartMapper Business UI, you can create, delete, and update participant instances of an association relationship instance.

After selecting the association relationship instance that you want to update, detailed information of the anchor participant instance is displayed in the Information for panel and detailed information of the other participant instance is displayed in the Associates for panel.

Do the following steps to update the selected association relationship instance:
  • Click in the Information for panel to modify attribute values of the selected anchor participant instance.
    Note: The entity instance points to the same object as the selected participant instance is updated.
  • Click in the Associates for panel to add a participant instance.

    See Adding a Participant Instance.

  • Click in the Associates for panel to delete the selected participant instance from the relationship instance.
    Note: Participant instances of the anchor participant cannot be deleted.
  • Click in the Associates for panel to modify attribute values of the associated participant.
    Note: The entity instance that points to the same object as the selected participant instance is updated.
  • Click to reverse the position of two participants.
    The anchor participant is displayed in the Associates for panel so that you can add participant instances for the anchor participant.
    Note: Although the associated participant is listed in the left panel after clicking , the anchor participant does not change. See Editing Participants for more details about how to change the anchor participant.