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# Affiliation DMO

The Affiliation DMO represents affiliation or how to map data Marketing Cloud Engagement business unit use cases.

## Object API Name

`ssot__Affiliation__dlm`

## Category

Other

## Primary Subject Area

Party

## Primary Key

Affiliation ID (`ssot__Id__c`)

## Relationships

| Object      | Field | Cardinality       | Related Object | Related Field |
| ----------- | ----- | ----------------- | -------------- | ------------- |
| Affiliation | Party | Many To One (N:1) | Individual     | Individual ID |

## All Fields

| Field Name            | Field API Name                    | Description                                                                                                                                                                                      | Data Type |
| --------------------- | --------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------- |
| Affiliated To         | `ssot__AffiliatedTo__c`           | Provides info about the business unit like brand or region. **Tip**: Default mapping is to a Marketing Cloud Engagement MID. This field ensures activations are sent to the right business unit. | text      |
| Affiliation ID        | `ssot__Id__c`                     | A unique ID used as the primary key for the affiliation DMO.                                                                                                                                     | text      |
| Affiliation Type      | `ssot__AffiliationType__c`        | The type or category of the affiliation such as product category.                                                                                                                                | text      |
| Data Source           | `ssot__DataSourceId__c`           | A reference ID for the logical name for a system that is the source of records identified by external record ID.                                                                                 | text      |
| Data Source Object    | `ssot__DataSourceObjectId__c`     | A reference ID for the logical name of the object where this record came from, whether that is a name of a cloud storage file or another connector’s external object.                            | text      |
| External Record ID    | `ssot__ExternalRecordId__c`       | A reference ID for an external data source system.                                                                                                                                               | text      |
| External Source ID    | `ssot__ExternalSourceId__c`       | A reference ID for the system in which the external record ID was assigned.                                                                                                                      | text      |
| Internal Organization | `ssot__InternalOrganizationId__c` | A reference ID to the business unit or other internal organization that owns the business account.                                                                                               | text      |
| Party                 | `ssot__PartyId__c`                | A reference ID to the parent party, for example, an individual, business, or affiliation group. **tip:** This ID is the same as the one used in the individual object.                          | text      |