Navigation from topics expressing relationships to their components
What is it?
A relation is itself a topic. For example, when two persons get married, their marriage is a distinct topic.
The topics representing the relations have their own topic page. The new feature enables to navigate from a relation topic to its components, as well as to the topic representing the role declared in the relation.
Another associated new feature is the fact that the name panel is not enabled any more for relation topics. The rationale is that the the names for the relations between topics is created automatically from its components. If any of the components change, the name changes accordingly. The information created on the relation topic persists.
Why we did it
The “relation as topic” feature is used by our customers to share review comments on the relations to indicate that those relations need to be double-checked. It became increasingly important to be able to navigate back to the components of the relations.
When will it appear
We are deploying the new version on the servers containing Networker applications. We are planning to update all applications by July 8, 2021.