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A reflexive relationship is a relationship between an entity and itself.

Context

In the following example, the reflexive relationship <Supervise> expresses that an employee (Manager) can supervise other employees.



Note

To obtain clean lines with rounded corners when you create a reflexive relationship, select Start of the navigation path Display Preferences Next navigation step Format Next navigation step Relationship End of the navigation path and modify the Line Style with the appropriate type from the Corners list.

Procedure

  1. Click the Relationship tool in the Toolbox.
  2. Click inside the entity symbol and, while continuing to hold down the mouse button, drag the cursor a short distance within the symbol, before releasing the button.

    A relationship symbol loops back to the same entity.



Results

Note

In the Dependencies page of the entity, you can see two identical occurrences of the relationship, this is to indicate that the relationship is reflexive and serves as origin and destination for the link