topic Re: difference between associations and child associations? in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/difference-between-associations-and-child-associations/m-p/232953#M186083 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>A child association **IS** an association.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>A child association is a uniquely named relationship between a single parent and single child node.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The most common example of a child association in alfresco is cm:contains which is used to construct the tree of file and folders you see in Explorer/CIFS/FTP etc.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You can also have other sorts of associations with </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>a) different cardinality (many to one, one to many etc.) e.g. cm:reference</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>b) different constraints </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>c) primary and secondary associations.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 26 May 2010 13:03:24 GMT mrogers 2010-05-26T13:03:24Z difference between associations and child associations? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/difference-between-associations-and-child-associations/m-p/232952#M186082 what is the difference between associations and child associations? Wed, 26 May 2010 11:29:11 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/difference-between-associations-and-child-associations/m-p/232952#M186082 esource 2010-05-26T11:29:11Z Re: difference between associations and child associations? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/difference-between-associations-and-child-associations/m-p/232953#M186083 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>A child association **IS** an association.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>A child association is a uniquely named relationship between a single parent and single child node.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The most common example of a child association in alfresco is cm:contains which is used to construct the tree of file and folders you see in Explorer/CIFS/FTP etc.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You can also have other sorts of associations with </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>a) different cardinality (many to one, one to many etc.) e.g. cm:reference</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>b) different constraints </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>c) primary and secondary associations.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 26 May 2010 13:03:24 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/difference-between-associations-and-child-associations/m-p/232953#M186083 mrogers 2010-05-26T13:03:24Z