Relation in practice. Can they act like properties or fields in databases?

[lynxlove]

@Freddy

I create a new company object: “Test Company Inc”. Link it to @freddy as owner. If now I check “relations” on the company object, I see @freddy in the owner field. Yet, if I check “relations” on @freddy, I can’t find the company object linked to him. What am I doing wrong?

Automatic Bi-directional relations are not available yet. There are already feature requests in the forum for the same. Kindly upvote them if possible

@Freddy

• How do I add attributes to the relationships themselves? Example: I want to add that @freddy owns 25% of Test Company Inc, while @teddy owns 30%. Or - say- I want to add qualifications between 2 people’s relationship. Or % of confidence about the relation among 2 objects.
• Can I attribute to a relation between two object a start date and end date? Haven’t found a way on my own.
• Can I add notes, labels or attachments to a relation between 2 objects?

All these sounds like additional qualifications to relations which is not possible now. I got inspired by your questions and did start a discussion in the forum but there seems to be not much action there

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One way to go about your question on the percentage owned in a company, you could create a new type called Percentage Owned, which has an object relation to specify the object being owned along with a number relation which specifies the percentage. Then create one page for @freddy with the company as the value for object relation and 25 as value for the number relation and link @freddy to this page. You then create a new page with a different percentage to @teddy. Not clean but atleast achievable