A repository object, either a widget or a screen, having an inheritance relationship with a child object in an application screen. The relationship is created either by copying the object from the repository to your application screen or by identifying the repository object in the Inherit From property window. When any changes are made to a parent object, the changes propagate to any children of that object.
a device or service that must be functional for a child device or service to function
The object that is the immediate superior of another object in a hierarchy. A parent object can have multiple subordinate, or child, objects. In Active Directory, the schema determines what objects can be parent objects of what other objects. Depending on its class, a parent object can be the child of another object. See also child object; object.
The object property is the property of.
The object in which another object resides. A parent object implies relation. For example, a folder is a parent object in which a file, or child object, resides. An object can be both a parent and a child object. For example, a subfolder that contains files is both the child of the parent folder and the parent folder of the files. See also: child object; object
An object or other item that controls the attributes of one or more child objects. A parent can also be the child of another parent. Contrast with child object. In other software packages, similar to link.