Thanks, that helps. I need to study the Core Data Programming Guide again, and 
this time pay more attention to the FAQs.
Lynn

On 2011 Apr 11, at 09:54, Lynn Barton wrote:

>> Can someone point me to an example or tutorial that shows how to get the 
>> value of a to-many relationship attribute of a Core Data entity? My 
>> application is simple and comparable to the Departments and Employees 
>> example in Apple's documents.
> 
> You just answered you own question ;)
> 
>> When I select a "department" object I have no trouble accessing any of its 
>> other properties, but when I try to get its "employees" I get only a 
>> relationship fault.
> 
>> I am trying to calculate a transient property
> 
> I'd bet that's the problem.  In my experience, transient properties are all 
> pain (lotsa gotchas) with no (performance) gain.  Consider either making it a 
> regular property, or, probably better for your case since a table view can 
> only show several tens of rows at a time, calculating it as a derived 
> attribute.  For the latter, remember your friend 
> +keyPathsForValuesAffecting<Foo>.
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