Force Platform Fundamentals: An Introduction to Custom Application Development in the Cloud

Creating a Many-to-Many Relationship

Our Recruiting app now has quite a few many-to-one relationships, but what if we needed to create a many-to-many relationship? For example, what if we have an object that stored information about various employment websites, and we wanted to track which open positions we posted to those sites? This would require a many-to-many relationship because:

• One position could be posted on many employment websites.

• One employment website could list many positions.

Here’s where we get a little creative. Instead of creating a relationship field on the Position object that directly links to the Employment Website object, we can link them using a junction object. A junction object is a custom object with two master-detail ...