Context - Simple Q, Complicated A!?

[Skipi]

Hi,

I've been searching for an easy explanation of context and related tables.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Skip

[David Jondreau]

Tables store data.

TOs are a representations of tables.

Since you can have more than one representation of a table on your relationship graph, when you want to pull data from a table you need to specify the "context" ie which table occurrence you're referring to.

Context doesn't necessarily require related tables, but it's usually only relevant when you're trying to use data from related TOs.