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MarkShnier__You
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6 years agoI suggest that your initial relationship is correct where you have one lead attorney has Many cases.
But then your next relationships will be the classic mini to mini situation. One assistant attorney has many cases but of course one case has many assisting attorneys.
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But then your next relationships will be the classic mini to mini situation. One assistant attorney has many cases but of course one case has many assisting attorneys.
So the solution is to builds middle table or a join table it is sometimes called Case Attorneys.
Then when viewing a case record, there would be a lead attorney select from the drop-down at the top of the case and then there would be an embedded child table of its assisting attorneys.
And conversely there would be a record for the attorney and it could list two separate tables. One table would be the table of cases where that attorney is the lead attorney, and a second embedded report would be a list of the cases where that attorney is an assisting attorney.
Then when viewing a case record, there would be a lead attorney select from the drop-down at the top of the case and then there would be an embedded child table of its assisting attorneys.
And conversely there would be a record for the attorney and it could list two separate tables. One table would be the table of cases where that attorney is the lead attorney, and a second embedded report would be a list of the cases where that attorney is an assisting attorney.
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NirajShah5
6 years agoQrew Member
As always, thanks Mark. To paraphrase are you saying that I keep my Attorneys and Cases table and then create a new Case Attorneys table via where both the Lead Attorney and the Assisting Attorneys can be added by a relationship among all tables?
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- MarkShnier__You6 years ago
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Exactly.
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------------------------------- NirajShah56 years agoQrew MemberThanks, Mark.
I'm trying to think of a way to make the Assisting Attorney's a multi select user field versus having to have the user add multiple attorneys as the assisting attorney. Do you think this is possible in anyway?
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------------------------------- MarkShnier__You6 years ago
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If you make it a multi select field it will cripple your ability to do any kind of meaningful reporting.I suggest you set up the many to many and then if you feel strongly that the data entry is too slow we can work on ways to improve the data entry.
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