Update Association
An association type also referred as an association is the fundamental building block for describing the relationships in the Entity Data Model (EDM). In a conceptual model, an association represents a relationship between two entity types such as a customer and an order. In an application, an instance of an association represents a specific association such as an association between an instance of a customer and an instance of an Order. Association instances are logically grouped in an association set.
An association definition contains the following information:
A unique name (required)
Two association ends, one for each entity type in the relationship (required)
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An association cannot represent a relationship among more than two entity types. An association can, however, define a self-relationship by specifying the same entity type for each of its association ends.
A referential integrity constraint (optional)
Each association end must specify an association end multiplicity that indicates the number of entity type instances that can be at one end of the association. An association end multiplicity can have a value of one (1), zero or one (0..1), or many (*). Entity type instances at one end of an association can be accessed through navigation properties or foreign keys if they are exposed on an entity type.
Use this action to update an association between two instances of one or two entity types.
Using the Update Association Action
To use this action in your workflow, connect it to ThingWorx Flow. To connect to the flow, do the following:
1. Drag the Update Association action under the OData connector to the canvas, place the pointer on the action, and then click or double-click the action. The Update Association action window opens.
2. Edit the label name, if needed. By default, the label name is same as the action name.
3. To add a new authorization, refer to the Authorizing OData section in the OData connector topic.
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If you previously added an OData authorization, select an authorization from the list.
4. In the Select Entity Set field, select an entity set.
5. In the Entity Id field, enter the entity id.
6. In the Select Association field, select an association to update, and then click Done.
Output Schema
The Update Association action returns a message attribute. For example, when a record is successfully updated, an appropriate message appears. See a sample output schema in the figure that follows:
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