[Rt-devel] rt3-schema-relationships.dot out of date?

[Todd Chapman]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:56:58PM -0500, Jesse Vincent wrote:
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> On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 02:54:26PM -0500, Todd Chapman wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 01:22:17PM -0500, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > No. Links are either tied directly to tickets or to arbitrary URIs.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Am I correct in understanding that the links to arbitrary URLs
> > > > were added later, and that links directly to tickets is more
> > > > of a backwards compatability thing?
> > > 
> > > Nope. It's a "and you can't easily build joins between a ticket id and a
> > > URL" thing.
> > 
> > Or between two URL things... right?
> 
> 
> Huh? It's easy to join on string equality. but joining a ticket id to a
> URL isn't doable.  The way we've solved this for RTFM is to contrive the
> full URI for an article and store it in the Articles table. Which
> doesn't make me really happy.
> 

At this point I'm not sure if we are talking past each other.
What I am trying to do is understand if I am mis-using links
in Asset Tracker, where I have been successfully using Link
to define relationships between assets, as well as between
assets and tickets.

-Todd