According to CVS the fieldtype TYPE_NODE was added in april: "pierre: Cleaning Project, Transactions 2 (a bit), Editwizards (in time) Added the field type NODE. The NODE field type can be used to indicate fields that refer to other objects.This can be used to automatically create referential integrity in the database.In future versions, this may also be used to validate, use temporary references in a workflow model (editwizards), in import/export of data (aplllications), and in teh resolvinf of transactions (Transactions2)." In spite of the suggestion that it has relevance to many active projects, I have not been able to find mention of it in any of the documentation. Perhaps the need for this fieldtype was previously discussed on this list, in that case can someone point it out to me? At any rate I need more specific info on how this field is intended to be used, in order to determine if this has impact on the Query interface I'm currently designing. Based on the little info I have available now, a TYPE_NODE can be used to access just the number, type and owner of the referenced object in the same query.The other fields of the referenced table can not be accessed in the same query, since this would require the type of the referenced object to be known in advance. (And we already have relations for this purpose.) Is this correct?
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