Example of Many Parent Instances to One Child Instance
The following example shows a relationship of one child record type to one parent record type. In this case, there are multiple parent record instances for one child record instance. The specific hotel room, the parent record, has multiple booking reservations, the child records, for that room.
In this example, Child record 3 (Reservation#3) associates with two parent records.
Hotel Rooms 15 and 20 are both instances of the Hotel Room custom record type.
Child record instances are of the custom record type Booking Reservation, where:
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The first Booking Reservation instance is booked for date 1 and is a child record of Hotel Room 15. On the parent record instance for Hotel Room 15, the booking reservation instance is shown as the first row in a Booking Reservation sublist. For example, Booking Reservation- name of child record type.
Note:The child record sublist on the parent record, in this case, Booking Reservation, has the same name as the child record type.
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The second Booking Reservation for Hotel Room 15 is similar but reserved for date 2. On the parent record instance for Hotel Room 15, the booking reservation instance is shown as the second row in the Booking Reservation sublist.
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The third Booking Reservation for date 3 has two parent record instances. On the parent record instance for Hotel Room 15, the booking reservation instance is shown as the third row in the Booking Reservation sublist. On the parent record instance for Hotel Room 20, the booking reservation instance is shown as the first row in the Booking Reservation sublist.