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====== What to do if an object can be related to multiple objects ======

Sometimes when you define relationships between business objects you may want to establish a relationship with different business object through the same reference attribute. For example, let us assume that you are defining an ''Account'' object and you want to establish a relationship between the account and its transactions by defining the ''MyTransactions'' reference attribute. However, you have several business objects that represent transactions – ''WithdrawalTransaction'' and ''DepositTransaction''. These transactions have some different attributes and some common attributes (for example ''Amount''). 

The solution is to add different objects representing transactions into a business object group (called ''Transaction'', for example) - see the “[[docs:2500_config_apps:1000_add_edit_bogs|Adding/Editing Business Object Groups]]” section – and get the reference attribute to refer to a business object group rather than the individual business object (see the “[[docs:2500_config_apps:0700_add_edit_attributes:0500_ref_attrib|Setting Properties of Reference Attributes]]” section).