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Reviewing related data more than one site away

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Reviewing related data more than one site away

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- [Instructor] There's a concept regarding relationships that I think is pretty important. I want to demonstrate that here in this video. What I want to do is go back into the relationship graph, and I want to remind you that data can be related even thought it's more than file away. For example, we've been talking about how there's one to many relationships between a parent and a child, and when we're talking about these base table relationships, the one to many ones, we can really understand it makes sense that if we are in a layout that's based on the context of customer or put a portal there that's based on order, we're going to see that customer's orders. What's interesting about it is we can keep going down the path here. For example, we can put a portal on our layout that shows line items, or we can put a portal that shows products. Let's stop for a second and think about what would actually show up if we put products. First we want to think about what data is already in the…

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