Vine Objects & Connections

A Vine object is a set of related data you work with when interacting with your customers. For example, a company, a person, a project, an event are all Vine objects. You use Vine to manage objects and store them to the Vine database. Because the key elements in any business activity are people and companies, Vine functionality is built mainly upon two main types of objects: Person and Company.

Vine makes use of both standard and custom types of objects. The standard installation of Vine includes the following object types:

Objects in Vine can be linked to each other by Connections. Connections are visual representations of logical relationships among Vine objects. The meaning of a connection varies depending on the nature of objects connected by it. One good way to think of connections is that they are roles which objects of one type may play in relation with objects of other types. For example, you can link a person to a company as an employee or to an event as a participant, and so on.

Connections work both ways. They are displayed with both objects and you can follow them in any direction.

Connections form a network - a continuous path you can follow from one object to another: from a project to a customer, from a customer to an event, from an event to its participants and so on:

Objects are shown using a summary view which displays an object’s data in an outline form.

If a summary view is not available for an object then an older view is used which consists of several resizable panes each of which show either the data of the object or the data of the connected objects.