An inherited connection type allows you to establish an ascendant and descendant relationship. With this connection type, when you delete an ascendant record, the system also automatically deletes all associated descendant records.
An ascendant record can have multiple descendant records, but a descendant record cannot inherit another. You can use an inherited connection type to associate records you only need to store for the life cycle of a single ascendant record. For example, if a university required an application from a prospective student prior to enrollment, the application could employ an inherited connection to the enrollment record. If the university chose to remove the application from its records, the enrollment record is deleted with it.