Chapter 11 Managing Object Replications


Creating a replica

There are two methods for creating replicas, you can:

You create an object replication:

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Links replication

You cannot replicate links, but you can create a link between two replicas in the referencing model.

Replica and namespace

Name uniqueness is automatically checked when you replicate an object, so that replicas are renamed in the referencing model when objects with the same name already exist in the model.

For more information on the definition of the namespace, see "Managing the namespace in models" in the "Managing Models" chapter.

The following example illustrates the replication of Entity_1 in a model that already contains an entity named Entity_1. The Entity_1 replica is automatically renamed to Entity_2 in the referencing model:


 


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