Manage links

You can use links to organize objects that are related to each other in some way.

About links

Creating a link establishes an association between one object and another. You can link folders, custom objects, and documents, including workflows and searches, to one another. The versions referenced by the linked objects are static. When you link one object to another, the version of the linked object is specified at the time you create the link. If you check out and then check in a new version of either of the objects, the link does not update dynamically to point to the new version. Instead it points to the now superseded version.

NOTE  Compound documents also use links to associate a parent document to child documents. Compound document links differ in that they define a hierarchical structure between documents, indicating their relationship to each other. See Manage compound documents for a complete discussion of compound documents.

Security

Links are separate objects with their own access rights. See Work with security for more information about security settings.

Link administration

Your site administrator controls various aspects related to links by setting site preferences. The administrator can set the following site preferences:

Creating a link

The process of creating links and linking objects includes:

Modifying and deleting links

Once links are created, they can be modified and deleted, depending on your site preferences. The modification process involves changing the properties assigned to a link. Deleting a link is similar to deleting a document. The link associating one object to another is removed permanently.

Procedures for managing links



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