Associations tweaks #2206
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syntax and rules apply because they're associations, not because a contained-in relationship is represented
Emphasises the 'keep models simple' in the context of this warning about compositions-of-one.
Reading the "managed composition" part made me first think of the
Orders:Items element when talking about the cardinality, but that's
to-many, which had me wondering for a sec. But I think what's being
referred to here is the backlink, i.e. this `up_` element:
```yaml
Orders.Items:
kind: entity
includes: [OrderItems]
elements:
up_:
key: true
type: cds.Association
cardinality: { min: 1, max: 1 }
target: Orders
keys: [{ ref: [ID] }]
notNull: true
```
stewsk
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Nov 17, 2025
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Minor fixes and improvements for the CDL section on Associations