Entity ref_business_associate

• Reference entity that describes the types of business associates. For example, a company, a person, a project team, a political party precinct, etc.

Attribute                                 Flags   Data Type

From ref_code:
   source_reference                       I       ref_source_reference

                                          The reference used by source to provide the standard
                                          instance, such as Petroleum Industry Data Dictionary
                                          (PIDD), Websters Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary,
                                          etc. 

   source                                 MI      ref_source

                                          The provider of this instance of reference information.
                                          If this instance is provided by POSC, then this
                                          attribute must be "POSC". 

   code_alias                             IV      set[0 .. N] of (ref_code_alias)

                                          Defines a list of alternative names associated
                                          with this instance. These may be aliases, translations,
                                          codes, etc. 


description                                       ndt_comment

                                          A description of the type of business associate.

kind                                      MU      ndt_name

                                          A name of a business associate type. For example,
                                          some types may be company, department, division,
                                          district, country, state, county, city, parish,
                                          school district, etc. 

used_in_rule                              V       set[0 .. N] of (ref_business_association_structure_rule)

                                          The set of business association rules that utilize
                                          this type of business associate as the associate
                                          being associated with. These business association
                                          rules have been defined by pointing to this business
                                          associate type as the associated type. 

has_association_rule                      V       set[0 .. N] of (ref_business_association_structure_rule)

                                          This is the set of business association rules
                                          that have been defined for this type of business
                                          associate. These rules have been defined with
                                          this business associate being pointed to from
                                          the rule with the characteristic business associate
                                          type. 

End of entity ref_business_associate

M - mandatory, U - unique, I - inherited, V - inverse, N - named type