I don’t have an answer for you.  But I work with a lot of meaningful PKs.
:D  I would have a relationship from Customer back to Company.  Then in
reporting it would be invoice.customer.comapny.

-Lon

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 4:09 AM, Hugi Thordarson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all.
> I’m currently working with an old DB with Extremely Meaningful™ PKs. Here
> are three tables from the DB and the columns that form their primary keys.
>
> — Company
> company_number
>
> — Customer
> company_number
> customer_number
>
> — Invoice
> company_number
> customer_number
> invoice_number
>
> As you’ve probably already figured out, “Customer” is joined to “Company”
> on “company_number” and “Invoice” is joined to “Customer” on
> “company_number” and “customer_number”.
>
> For the most part, this object graph works fine in Cayenne, but there’s
> one thing: In addition to the relationship to “Customer”, “Invoice" also
> has a relationship to “Company” (based on company_number, having this
> direct relationship is useful for reporting). But if I set the “customer”
> relationship on “Invoice”, the “company” relationship does not get set.
>
> Is there some way for me to notify Cayenne that more relationships might
> be involved in a change to “Customer”
>
> Cheers,
> - hugi

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