Re: How to add a third field to a join table?

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Actually now that the join table has meaningful attributes you should
create an ObjEntity for it. Flattened relationships that you setup is
a shortcut to hide meaningless tables. In your case it is no longer
appropriate.

Andrus

On Sep 22, 2005, at 7:04 AM, Joseph Hannon wrote:
> I successfully implemented the seven step instruction piece that
> Todd O'Bryan detailed in the post 'Many to Many Relation'. That
> would be a great addition to the Cayenne docs!
>
> Now, I need to add a new field to the link table 'UserToRole'. This
> new field, 'YYZ', will represent the importance of a specific Role
> for a User as an integer. YYZ clearly cannot be in the Role table
> since Roles are reused and each may have a different importance.
> Based on Todd's instructions, I don't have an objEntity called
> UserToRole, and now I suspect I will need one due to this new
> field. Currently, I can retrieve a List of Role objects from
> within User, but how would I get to this new field YYZ?
>
> Please advise.
>
> Thanks,
> Joseph

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