An Associate service performs a Siebel Associate operation. This service establishes relationships among multi-value group (MVG) business component records.

These associations have a many-to-many relationship. For example, if you are creating orders, and you want to associate line items with the multi-valued link field in the orders, you would associate the line items with the order.

Each level in the navigation path must return a single record. You can associate only those component records that are linked by an association relationship in Siebel.

To configure Associate services, see Configuring Associate Services.