Question

Indicating Primary with a Many to Many Relationship

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I've got a people table and a locations table that have a many to many relationship with each other. I need to be able to flag a single location as the primary location for each person, but if I put this flag in the location table I'm afraid it will make it the primary for other people connected to that location. I'm not sure how I can indicate a single location on the people table to make it primary, but ensure the rest of the locations are still on the list.

asked 2015-03-18

Brett

1 answers

Bart Tolen · Answer 1 · 2015-03-18

Add a reference association on People that referes to the PrimaryLocation.

In business logic you can make sure that PrimaryLocation is allways a member of the many to many reference set association

OR

A validation that checks the membership of the Primary location in the reference set before commit and raises an error with validation feedback if it is not a member.