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Making relationship names not unique
March 01, 2009, 04:16:24 am
Hi,

If I create a relationship "member" between Individual and Org, and can't create a "member" between Household and Org, even so "in real life" it happens.

Is there a technical reason why it isn't possible or an option I missed ?

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Re: Making relationship names not unique
March 01, 2009, 07:05:07 am

i tried creating a relationship type between Houshold and Org and it worked for me

can u reproduce on the demo machine

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Re: Making relationship names not unique
March 01, 2009, 02:11:53 pm
The schema for civicrm_relationship_type does specify that the "name" columns (name_a_b and name_b_a) are UNIQUE indexes. The rationale is that when relationships are created, the user first picks a relationship type (by selecting from a list of "names"). If the names aren't unique - then they would have difficulty deciding which to pick.

Applying unique names that specify the "usage" seems like a decent "workaround":

"Individual Member"
"Household Member"
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Re: Making relationship names not unique
March 01, 2009, 02:59:33 pm
Ok, make sense, and I'm going to work around as you suggest.

Thanks.

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