Many-to-many inter-table relationships allow defining connections between the entries of any two tables, with specifying the relationship type other than "one-to-one".
For example, the User and the Group tables may contain many records about users and groups accordingly. A user may be in more than one group, and a group may include many users, so, in this case, these two tables have to be bound as shown below:
The many-to-many table is a table describing how two tables are linked with each other. You can find a typical example of such a linkage on the screenshot below:
To create a new many-to-many relationship, please complete the steps below:
- Navigate to M2M → Create M2M table.
- Fill in the fields.
- Click Save or Save and Exit to apply changes.
Role required: security_admin.
Many-to-many relationship form fields
| Field | Mandatory | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Y | String | A relationship name. |
| Source column | |||
| From Column Label | N | String | Specify the column label (it may differ from the column title). |
| From Column Name | Y | String | Specify the column to bind with another one. Use the system name of the column taken from the column properties. The column should be presented in the table specified in the From Table field; otherwise, the relationship will be disfunctional. To get the system name of a column, please navigate to the All Columns list or to the Realted Lists area in the table form. |
| From Table | Y | Reference | Reference to the table containing the column to bind with another one specified in the To Column Name field. |
| Target column | |||
| To Column Label | N | String | Specify the column label (it may differ from the column title). |
| To Column Name | Y | String | Specify the column to bind with another one. Use the system name of the column taken from the column properties. The column should be presented in the table specified in the To Table field; otherwise, the relationship will be disfunctional. To get the system name of a column, please navigate to the All Columns list or to the Realted Lists area in the table form. |
| To Table | Y | Reference | Reference to the table containing the column to bind with another one specified in the From Column Name field. |
