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Process Synthesis Rules

This section describes the rules used to populate the default values for CREATE, UPDATE, and DELETE statements generated during the Process Synthesis dialogs. Each dialog allows different selections and defaults that are entirely dependent upon the entity action type and the relationships involved. In the following rules, the relationships are defined as they appear in the Data Model, with the subject entity types always to the left of all possible related entity types. The rules apply to creating, updating, or deleting a single occurrence of the subject entity type. The following illustration shows the Representation of Relationships in Process Synthesis Rules:

In general, a mandatory one-optional many relationship means the subject entity type sometimes has one or more related entity types and the related entity type always has one subject entity type. The source relationship refers to the mandatory one and the destination relationship refers to the optional many.

The following relationship combinations are grouped by the actions allowed against the target entity types.