Association between two things from different templates

[vijay5]

Hi Team,

Need assistance on accomplishing association between things of different templates(that doesnot have inheritance between them) may be primary and foreign key relation or must use a dataTable to achieve this? 

Can any one pls suggest

[PaiChung]

Often times we use a Network for this.

Not sure if there is an actual hierarchical relationship

else you can use a property in either Thing to 'point' to the other Thing

[vijay5]

Thanks for the reply

Can you pls brief on 

you can use a property in either Thing to 'point' to the other Thing

[PaiChung · Accepted solution]

Thing1 would have a property that helps it to 'maintain' what other Thing(s) it 'relates' to

so I could do something like

Things[me.myRelatedThing].someValue to access a property value in that related Thing.

[vijay5]

Thanks, Got it