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Bill Wood
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There are 3 types of External Metadata Objects in Rollbase: DataDirect Cloud, OpenEdge Service, and External Database Tables. For all of these you can create relationships between Rollbase native objects and the external ones... the limitation is that they need to have a Primary Key defined. Basically Rollbase creates a 'relationship' from the native object to the external one by creating a foreign key in the native object. Rollbase does this by modifying the definition of the native object. Naturally, Rollbase cannot modify the schema for native objects, so you can't create new schema elements in objects 'owned' externally. But Rollbase will read Foreign Key / Primary Key information when it can. This generally means in External Database Tables (see " External Relationships " in the documentation). Was there a particular use case you were referring to with respect to the type of External Metadata Object?
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