Purpose of the showrelated function

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The purpose of the above mentioned functions is not clarified. I feel like you could have specified why this function isnecessary for ur target user so as the make it more meaningful this will also help to explain how ur product is suited for the target group you decided.

I feel like instead of this function you could have perhaps used the UI to show the relations as another field or tag or other features. This seems like a very long winded way to find the relations.

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_{[original: nus-cs2103-AY2324S2/pe-interim#3734] [original labels: severity.Medium type.DocumentationBug]}

[tanjieling0]

Team's Response

This function is an extension of the relate command (which is above itself in the UG). We decided not to use UI /another field etc. to show the related profiles because it is not scalable.

For example, if you have 1 employee that is related to 100 suppliers, we can

• use a UI to show 1 employee linked to 100 suppliers, which can be messy
• use a field to list down all 100 employees which can be hard to navigate

Hence, we believe that this way is the optimal solution to get a clear view of the related profiles and navigate between them seamlessly without distractions.

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