clsPolicyAssociation

clsPolicyAssociation is an immutable value object describing one policy-to-policy association (type, parent/child, related policy identity, status, period). It implements SAIF.Business.Policy.IPolicyHeaderAssociation (an internal project-reference contract) and is produced by clsPolicyHeaderAssociationFactory.

Purpose

• Represents one immutable policy-to-policy association record (type, parent/child role, related policy, status, period).
• Implements SAIF.Business.Policy.IPolicyHeaderAssociation for consumption by policyholder parent-affiliation authorization checks (BR-VP-006).

Context

• Namespace: SAIF.Business.View.Policy
• Assembly/package: SAIF.Business.View.Policy (embedded library reference)

Public members

Member	Signature	Purpose
AssociationType	ReadOnly Property AssociationType As IPolicyAssociationType	The association type (e.g. manual affiliation, experience combination) of this association.
RelatedPolicyNum	ReadOnly Property RelatedPolicyNum As Decimal	The policy number this association points to.
IsParent	ReadOnly Property IsParent As Boolean	Whether this association represents a parent relationship (used by policyholder access checks).
Status	ReadOnly Property Status As String	Status of the related policy in this association.

Behavioral notes

• This is a plain class, not a clsBusinessBase derivative, and has no inherited members section — it is constructed as an immutable value object by clsPolicyHeaderAssociationFactory, not retrieved directly.

Constraints and usage notes

• Consumers should treat instances as immutable once constructed.

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Sources

• SAIF.Business.View.Policy\Associations\clsPolicyAssociation.vb