Link Types

A Link Type defines a named, directional relationship between two Object Types. It specifies which properties form the foreign key and how many objects can sit on each side (one-to-one, one-to-many, or many-to-many). For example, a Link Type "Employee → Office" might join on a office_id property shared between the Employee and Office objects.

Choosing the right cardinality is critical for how applications traverse the graph: - One-to-one: an Employee has exactly one Badge. - One-to-many: an Office has many Employees. - Many-to-many: Students enroll in multiple Courses; each Course has many Students. Getting cardinality right ensures Workshop widgets and Functions return the correct shape of data.

Once links are defined, you can traverse the Ontology like a graph. In Functions you can write employee.office.city to go from an employee to their office's city. In Workshop, users can click an employee row and instantly see their linked office, manager, or projects. This graph traversal is what makes the Ontology feel like a connected knowledge base rather than a collection of tables.