Subject Re: [IBO] Masterlinks demo - does not work ?
Author Jason Wharton
> Trying to learn about masterlinks. Want to set up master table with
> links to several other detail tables. Some detail tables will only
> have one record linked, other could have multiple records linked.
> When I delete entry from master table want all detail records also to
> be deleted. As far as I can tell, masterlinks demo should do this
> but when I try to delete a record from the master table I get an
> error about Violation of Foreign Key Constraints.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction to learn how to
> accomplish this.

Change the referential integrity to cascade the delete instead of
restricting it. Also, you could use a trigger that would delete the child
records when the master record is being deleted.

HTH,
Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com