Normalized many-to-many relation - Revision history

bahtiar at 10:13, 28 December 2006

2006-12-28T10:13:18Z

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	'''Be careful''' when using the AF_HIDE flag in the itermediate (A_B) node for the atkManyToOneRelation, in combination with multilanguage fields. When a relation is hidden, the key (a_id) will not be processed and no check on the language is done. This causes the added record to appear multiple times (once for every language), since a_id is not unique in the intermediate table.		'''Be careful''' when using the AF_HIDE flag in the itermediate (A_B) node for the atkManyToOneRelation, in combination with multilanguage fields. When a relation is hidden, the key (a_id) will not be processed and no check on the language is done. This causes the added record to appear multiple times (once for every language), since a_id is not unique in the intermediate table.


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bahtiar: Normalized with an intermediary table moved to Normalized many-to-many relation

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Normalized with an intermediary table moved to Normalized many-to-many relation

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bahtiar at 10:12, 28 December 2006

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A Many-To-Many-Relation basically consist of a atkOneToMany relation to the intermediate table. The intermediate node has two atkManyToOne relations defined.

'''Example'''

One person (node A) can have several skills (node B) and the same skill applies to more than one person.

[[image:atkManyToMany.jpg|center]]

If, in the example above, a skill is removed, this skill must be removed for all employees. This can be achieved by adding the AF_CASCADE_DELETE flag to the atkOneToManyRelation in node B:

atkOneToMany(“unique dummy”,
“mymod.A_B”,
“b_id”,
AF_HIDE|AF_CASCADE_DELETE);

Normally you assign skills to a person (an not the other way round), so the atkOneToManyRelation in this node must be hidden.

And on the other hand, if an employee is deleted, the correspoding record(s) in the intermediate table must be removed as well.

atkOneToMany(“unique dummy”,
“mymod.A_B”,
“a_id”,
AF_CASCADE_DELETE);

'''Be careful''' when using the AF_HIDE flag in the itermediate (A_B) node for the atkManyToOneRelation, in combination with multilanguage fields. When a relation is hidden, the key (a_id) will not be processed and no check on the language is done. This causes the added record to appear multiple times (once for every language), since a_id is not unique in the intermediate table.