Relationship Graph

[Ocean West]

Apple has a move of the relationship graph

http://www.apple.com/macosx/applications/filemaker/graphview.html

And one for multiple windows

http://www.apple.com/macosx/applications/filemaker/multipleviews.html

Version: v7.x

Platform: Mac OS X Panther

[bruceR]

Much has been made of the relationship graph, table occurrences, the over-riding importance of context, there are no relationships in the old sense, etc. I tried to explore this a little bit:

Create two sets of parent-child relationships. In one, create related child records, delete related child records optons are turned on. These relations are established in an interface file, using table occurrences from the data file. The data file does not have cascading delete turned on.

In the second pair of table occurrences in the interface file, there is a parent child relationship but no create/delete.

Go to layout based on second table occurrence group.

Delete parent record.

Child records are deleted.

Now, this makes sense to me, but it also says that context is not quite as all-powerful as it has been described. Or at least what I thought I was hearing.

[Ocean West]

Yes you need to be careful you could create database genocide!