Hi @Marion,
Thanks for your patience while we work through this!
When I open the “Right Side Rels” form, in the “Destination Object” field, it defaults to the Archive’s catalogue number (or in the XML, it is the right side). And I have no way of searching for a catalogue number associated with the Paleo collection from the form (I also tried it in the ‘Destination Object’ field, and there too I only have access to the catalogue numbers of the Archives).
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I don’t understand how to enter data into the custom form; it’s not working.
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Finally, how do you fill out the “rightsiderels” form? It’s supposed to be automatic, but nothing happens in the “Historical context” collection. The formular stay blank.
You cannot enter data into the custom form as it is meant to provide you a read-only view of the relationships. It is only the best place to see all incoming links, but not to create or edit.
Query combo boxes (like ‘Left Side Object’ and ‘Right Side Object’ can only see records in the current collection, so it is necessary to use the one-to-many plugin since it allows you to search and select a record from a different collection (the Right Side).
All object relationships need to be established through the CollectionRelOneToManyPlugin, as they cannot be established any other way (outside of the WorkBench).
In addition, I would like to be able to enter this data in both directions.
Data cannot be entered from both directions, as the relationships need to be made from the source side collection. You can have multiple ‘source’ collection links to the destination, and in the custom rightsiderels subview you should see (as read-only) all links (including the name of the collection).
I have added a feature request for this capability!
I created the links in the Paleo collection, but they don’t appear when I open the Historical Event collection.
You currently have 9 object relationships configured:
- For 8 of these:
- Source: Historical Context
- Destination: Paleo Collection
- For one of these:
- Source: DNA & Tissue
- Destination: Paleo Collection
If you add rightsiderels to the Collection Object form, it will show all cases where that record is the ‘right side’ (destination) of a relationship.
That means if you put the subview on the form for the ‘Paleo Collection’, the Collection Object MB.R.2713 would show a single relationship from the source collection:
For DNA & Tissue, this is a one-to-many relationship (one Specimen for several Tissues, for example) so your exemple is valide. But for Historical Context, it is a many-to-many relationship (one Specimen can be linked to several Archives, and one Archive can point to several Specimens). How can I do that?
The counterpart relationship, leftsiderels, shows all relationships where that record is the ‘left side’ (source) of a relationship in a single view. This duplicates the view that the CollectionRelOneToManyPlugin already has, except it shows all of these rels in a single list rather than across several plugins.
They only appear if I click on the eye icon.
The subview is defined to show a read-only preview of the record if you click the eye icon. You can configure it to show the entire record Collection Object as a subview if desired, though if you go that direction, I recommend defining a miniaturized form so it doesn’t take up too much space. If you want to go that direction, let me know!