Managing an Association Relationship

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

1. Log in to SmartMapper Business UI, as described in Logging in to SmartMapper Business UI.
2. Click Association from the menu and select an association relationship.
   You are brought to the Association Relationship Management page. As shown, Order is the anchor participant to represent the Map_Order_Cust association relationship.

   

3. Do the following steps to manage the selected association relationship:
   • Select the check boxes next to the anchor participant instances that you want to delete and click in the left panel.
     Note: Only the relationship instances that are associated with the selected anchor participants are deleted. Corresponding entity instances are not deleted.
   • Click in the left panel to add an association relationship instance.

     See Creating an Association Relationship Instance.

   • Click an anchor participant to manage the association relationship instance that this anchor participant is associated with. By default, the first anchor participant is selected.

     See Editing an Association Relationship Instance.

• Creating an Association Relationship Instance
  An association relationship contains only two participants. To create an association relationship instance, you are required to add two participant instances at one time.
• Editing an Association Relationship Instance
  With SmartMapper Business UI, you can create, delete, and update participant instances of an association relationship instance.