Changing Entity References 

Use

When a DC uses other components, you can here refer to the entities of the public parts of the used DC. You can use this, for example, to make public parts of inner DCs available outside of their outer DC. This is necessary, because the public parts of a child component are not automatically propagated to the public parts of the parent DC. For more information, see Nesting Development Components.

·        You use this procedure in all scenarios that use the component model:

Adding Entity References

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       1.      To propagate an entity of a public part of the used component, choose Add Entity Reference in the context menu of the Entity References node.

The DC, whose entity you want to refer to, must be declared as a Used DC. This also applies it the used DC is an inner DC.

A wizard starts.

       2.      Under Input Help: Entity References, select the public part of the child component that you want to propagate.

       3.      Choose Finish.

Display Entity References

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       1.      To display the properties of an entity, in the context menu of the entry choose Properties.

Deleting Entity References

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       1.      To delete entity references, in the context menu of the entity reference choose Remove Entity Reference.

Other components may need this entity reference and cannot be built without it.