AssociationGroup class
Represents a collection of references to logically related association navigators, associators, and disassociator objects, and the corresponding bulk stereotypes.
Microsoft.SharePoint.BusinessData.Administration.MetadataObject
Microsoft.SharePoint.BusinessData.Administration.AccessControlledMetadataObject
Microsoft.SharePoint.BusinessData.Administration.AssociationGroup
Namespace: Microsoft.SharePoint.BusinessData.Administration
Assembly: Microsoft.SharePoint (in Microsoft.SharePoint.dll)
Multiple logical relationships maintained by a back-end database between the same sources and destination external content types might exist. Consider an example in which a Customer has late Orders and on-time Orders. Based on business logic, a back-end database might move an association between a Customer and Order into either of these distinct relationships. Thus, an API that takes an Order and a Customer, and associates (or disassociates) them, must be related to a specific logical relationship and corresponding Navigator. This is done by binding several individual Association stereotypes into a Group; this construct is an association group.
This class ties together a forward navigator with a reverse navigator and disambiguates which logical relationship is affected by an associator or disassociator.