Multiple Applications on AwardsMultiple Applications on Awards

What

Up until Pure 5.20.0, only one Application could be related to an Award, either as its Predecessor or Successor. From 5.20.0 multiple Successor Applications are allowed for an Award, while Predecessors are still restricted to one.

This allows for a continuous flow of Applications to Awards. As an example: an Application is created, and it results in an Award. Another Application follows from this Award - and can be associated with it as its Successor.

How

• To enable a two-way relationship, it is necessary to appropriately configure the Predecessor/Successor and the Successor/Predecessorw settings on both Applications and Awards.
• You set this up in Administrator > Applications/Awards > Types.
  • You can see a detailed description on how to set this up, in the 5.20.0 release note

Note:

• If no Successor/Predecessor relationship has been set up for an Award type, then you can add any allowed relation to it. However, as soon as one rule has been added, the types that are allowed to be added as relations are limited in line with this rule. This is applied to the two content types forming the relation. This is to enforce a tight relationship between the Application and Award/Grant types in Pure.
• Project type relations are only enforced if a Project type relation is added. This means that all types of Projects can be linked to other content types by default. Once a relation type between a Project type and another content type is specified, it will be enforced in Pure.
• If the allowed types of relations are later altered, the existing relations will still be valid and recorded in Pure, but you will not be able to add them to new content. Instead, you will need to follow the altered logic when defining new relations.