I think there is something weird going on with the way our related objects work in TMS. It’s a system that I inherited, so I don’t want to
go making some major change to it until I’m sure that it’s incorrect and not just a matter of me misunderstanding how it works. This is going to be really tricky to explain in an email, but I’ll give it a shot…
We want to create parent-child relationships between the records for our Time Capsules and all of the items inside. The TC would be the parent,
the contents would be child records. When I go to the relationships tab for the parent object, I select “add child,” and my option for the type of relationship is “IsPartOf.” I can then add all of the related child records, no problem. When I go to the
child records, I can see the relationship for the parent record – it says “HasPart,” and lists the parent record.
What I think is kind of weird is the relationship names. When I’m in a child record, I see this:
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TC23, Andy Warhol, Time Capsules: Time Capsule 23
But I think that reads like “This object has a part, and it is TC23,” when what I’m really trying to say is that “This object has a parent, and it is TC23,” or, “This object is a part of TC23.” But maybe you’re supposed to read it from the bottom up?
The functionality of all of this seems to work fine, it’s just the language of the relationship that seems odd to me. Here’s a screenshot
of how the relationship is set up.
What do you guys think? Should I switch “HasPart” and “IsPartOf?”
Thanks,
Amber
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