meta:class relationships.ini file directive

Return to relationships.ini file

The meta:class directive allows you to ascribe special meaning to a relationship which Xataface can use in various parts of your application to provide enhanced capabilities.

For example you can specify a relationship as a "parent" relationship, thereby using the relationship to obtain the "parent" of records of this table. This can be used to help build breadcrumbs.

You can also specify a relationship as a "children" relationship which would treat records in the relationship as children of the current record. This can be used in conjunction with the list:type=treetable directive of the relationships.ini file to build a tree table that navigates all child records and subtrees.

The Dataface_Record class contains some methods for retrieving the parent and children of records and these methods will take into account any settings you make here.

Allowed Values

See Also

1. list:type - relationships.ini file directive to use a treetable for the related record list of a relationship.
2. getChildren - Delegate class method to explicitly define the Dataface_Record objects that are to be considered as child records of the current record.
3. getParent? - Delegate class method to explicitly define the Dataface_Record object that is to be considered as the parent record of the current record.