Link Relationships

Linked Records

Linked records are records that have a relationship with another record. For example, a product record may contain links to accessory products or related products. The records can be in the same repository or in different repositories.

Records can be linked to digital asset metadata records. A digital asset is a file, such as an image, spreadsheet or PDF file. For every digital asset, EnterWorks’s DAM keeps a metadata file in the DamMaster repository. (See Digital Asset Management (DAM) for more information.) If a record is linked to a digital asset metadata record, it is said to be linked to the digital asset.

Types of Linked Relationships

Link relationships can be “one-to-one” (one record linked to another record), “one-to-many” (one record linked to more than one record), or “many-to-many” (records can both have more than one record link to them and can link to more than one record).

Linked Repositories

Repositories can also be linked and have link relationships. The path of these multiple link relationship between repositories is used to control publication, customized import, customized exports and can be used for other purposes as well.

In a link relationship, one repository is the parent and other repository is the child. The linkage between repositories is created by joining one or more attributes from both repositories. The join attributes must be defined as part of the snapshot table in order to participate in the join. Once a link has been established, the link is available to be displayed as a link table in both parent and child repositories.