Novell GROUPWISE 8 - LIBRARIES AND DOCUMENTS Manual page 60

Related document properties are set up by creating related lookup tables. Complete the following
tasks to set up related document properties:
"Planning Related Document Properties" on page 364
"Creating Related Lookup Tables" on page 366
"Setting Up Related Document Properties" on page 367
Planning Related Document Properties
Related document properties use a parent-child relationship. A parent property can have multiple
child properties, but a child property can belong to only one parent. The relationship can include
only two levels. A parent property cannot function as a child and a child property cannot function as
a parent. The default document properties cannot participate as related properties.
In the Development Library example above, the Product document property would be the parent
property and the Component document property would be the child property. If the Development
Library belonged to Novell
on. When users selected GroupWise as the product, listed components could include the GroupWise
client, the agents, GroupWise system administration, and so on. Or you could let users type in
whatever components they wanted.
When you need to set up related document properties, print the
Worksheet" on page
fields, one parent lookup table, and one child lookup table (optional).
The following table describes the document properties and lookup tables that are required in order to
set up related document properties:
Table 23-3
Properties and Tables
Parent Document Property
Child Document Property
Parent Lookup Table
Child Lookup Table
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, products would include GroupWise, NetWare
365. One copy of the worksheet accommodates one pair of related property
Document Properties and Lookup Tables
Description
The parent document property is the user's first selection. In the
Development Library example above, the parent document property is
Product.
The child document property is the user's second selection, based on the
first selection. In the Development Library example above, the child
document property is Component.
The entries in the parent lookup table provide the choices offered to the
user in the parent document property field. In the Development Library
example above, the user could select from GroupWise, NetWare, and
ZENworks in the Product field.
The entries in the child lookup table provide the choices offered to the user
after a choice from the parent lookup table has been selected. In the
Development Library example above, if the user selected GroupWise in the
Product field, the child lookup table would provide choices such as Agents,
Client, and Admin in the Component field.
The child lookup table is not required if you want to allow the user to type in
anything they want in the child document property field.
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"Related Document Properties
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