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3. Type the id of the last instance in the range you want to retrieve in the To field. 4. Click Get Relationships. Relationship Manager displays up to 500 instances in a range of the ids you specify. Retrieving by participant data Do the following to retrieve a relationship instance based on values for key or nonkey attributes of selected participants: 1. At the "retrieve relationships" window click Retrieve by Value. 2. Select the participant whose value you want to search on from the Participants drop-down menu. For identity relationships, the drop-down menu lists the participant names followed by the business object definition with which the participant is associated. For lookup relationships, the drop-down menu lists the participant names followed by the word "Data". 3. Type the one of the types of values listed in Table 17 in the Value column in the "Attributes" pane. Table 17. Supported values for retrieving relationship instances by participant data Value Description Participant data The data of the selected participant. For example, if the relationship is an identity relationship you would specify the id of the participant instance that you know to find the relationship instance in which it exists. If the relationship is a lookup relationship you would specify the non-key data value of the participant instance. % Any string of characters. This option is case-sensitive; numbers are included in the character set. For example, if %A were specified for a participant that stores abbreviated forms of the names of the United States, the values CA, GA, IA, LA, MA, PA, VA, and WA would be returned. _ Any single character. As an example, _00 would retrieve 100, 200, a00, b00, and so forth. 4. Click Get Relationships. Relationship Manager displays the first 500 relationship instances that match the specified value. Returning a count of the relationship instances To return the number of relationship instances that satisfy a retrieval criteria, select the options for the criteria as described in "Retrieving all instances" on page 176, "Retrieving by relationship ID" on page 176, or "Retrieving by participant data," and then click Get Count instead of Get Relationships. Creating relationship instances Do the following to create a new instance for a relationship: 1. Create the new relationship instance by performing any of the following tasks: v Select File > New from the menu bar. v Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+N. Chapter 10. Using Relationship Manager 177
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