Object relations or connections allow you to map data efficiently thanks to our automatically generated relations diagrams.

Dawiso differentiates between two types of relations, each having its own diagram: business and physical.

  • Business relations connect your data with Dawiso apps, creating a common understanding within an organization, and providing visual data mapping.
  • Physical relations document your data landscape by adding these relations between your real database objects.
Tip

On this page, you will learn about relations between objects of different apps. For relations between objects of the same app, refer to the dedicated Business Glossary or Documentation articles.

Business relations

Manually added relations

For relations between objects of each app, refer to the specific app article.

  • Documentation objects document business glossary and metadata apps objects.
  • Business glossary objects are related to metadata apps objects.
  • Code lists have six different object types (lists), each with different availability for different apps. For more information, see Code List.

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Automatically generated relations

Automatically generated mentions are created via content.

  • Is mentioning/is mentioned by: Created via autolinking business glossary objects and corresponding words that were used in any texts.
  • Is referencing/is referenced by: Created via linking to any object using hyperlinks used in any texts.

Physical relations

In most cases, physical relations are available for metadata objects and can be assigned in Dawiso manually as well.

These relations are:

  • is processing/processed by
  • data source/has data source
  • foreign key parent/foreign key child

For more information, refer to the specific metadata app.

Relations diagram

The relations diagram will be automatically generated based on your object relations. The relations diagram can be found on your object page.