[progress Communities] [progress Openedge Abl] More Flexible Entry Of Entity Associations

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Identifying an existing association with a set of database tables is not a clearly identified operation. You can create an association but by default Corticon generates a new algorithmically-named field and uses that field as the key. However, in an existing database there is already a key field; Corticon can use that but only with a spot of juggling and only if you already know how to do it. Permit creating an association by selecting an already-existing attribute to be the foreign key field. I'd like to right-click on the existing attribute and choose "Add association using this attribute as key" and pick the associated entity and the entity's key from selection lists. This should create a Corticon association but not update the database structure.

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