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associations, owner is set on “both”

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I have a general question about associations in which the owner is set on “both”. How do you deal with them when you want to insert new objects (in the data base) that are instances of meta-objects which both own an (bidirectional) association?

asked 2009-09-29

Christopher Kober

1 answers

Johan den Haan · Accepted Answer · 2009-09-29

You can just create new objects and set the association from one side. The framework will assure that the other side will be correctly set.

Let's consider an example:

We have a User object and an Account object with a reference set to both in between.

If you create a user object and use a reference selector (rendered as popup / form) in the dataview showing the user, you can create a new Account object in the reference selector popup.

Once you save / commit the user object the reference is automatically set from the Account side.