Association Applets

Association applets are used with pairs of business components that have a many-to-many relationship. Association applets can be invoked from master-detail views or from MVG applets. They allow users to associate a parent record with one or more children through an intersection table.

Association applet presents the user with a selection list of available detail records. If users see the desired detail record in the selection list, they choose it. If not, they have the option to create a new detail record.

In the context of a many-to-many relationship, creating a new association for an existing detail record is called association; creating a new detail record and an association is called addition. Both association and addition of detail records result in the creation of a new row in the intersection table.