Examples of good UI for selecting multiple records

Question

I\'m currently revisiting an area of my Windows-based software and looking at changing the relationship from 1->M to M->M. As a result, I need to adjust the UI to accommodate se

Answer 1

I think that what you have mocked up is a pretty good way to do it. When you think about the tags-to-posts relationship on a blog (or on SO even), that is many-to-many and it is usually implemented very similarly: for one post, you search for (or, since they are simple strings, directly enter) as many tags as you want to associate with it. I can't really think of any many-to-many relationships I encounter often, although I know there are probably many...