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Status Future consideration
Categories Integration
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 5, 2019

Object Structures should allow a Source Object multiple times

Object Structures need to allow a given Object to appear as a Source Object multiple times.

For example, we may want to include the full name, department, primary email address and primary phone number for the Lead, Owner and Supervisor of a Work Order. Because Lead, Owner and Supervisor are all instances of the PERSON Object, Maximo will throw error "Only one instance of a MBO can be specified under a parent MBO. (BMXAA5588)" To get around this limitation, we would be forced to make multiple View objects that Extend PERSON, but this makes a cluttery mess of redundant objects in Database Configuration. It would be better if we could just include PERSON multiple times.

In some cases, this limitation could be gotten around by a relationship that will find all the desired child records. However, if we were using this Object Structure on a Start Center's Result Set, the Cardinality to the child object would have to be SINGLE, so the relationship returning 3 records is not an option.

For the sake of differentiating in XML, or etc, the Relationship name should be used to name the child data. As a configurable option, the child data could be configured to have an attribute to indicate its object name, or each object could have META and VALUE children -- the former with object and attribute metadata and the latter with the object's attributes' values.

Idea priority High