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Example of Sharing

A Product Bill of Materials requires two Owned by relations from the Product file to the Assembly file. One relation represents the Parent Product; the other represents the Component Product. The Product file is owned by the Division file, which is owned by the Company file. You use Sharing to specify that the Components of a Product must be from the same Company as the resulting or Parent Product but that the components can be from different divisions.

The Sharing text specifies that the two Owned by relations share the Company file record.

See the chapter "Creating/Defining Your Data Model" for more information on sharing entries and redirection.