Linked objects
Links indicate a relationship or dependency between two or more Objective objects. Create links between objects to imply a connection or relationship. Depending on how Objective
Objective
- identifies links in the document while saving new documents to Objective
- on opening or editing a document, the existing links are automatically downloaded to your Objective Director cache.
Tip: If the object linking capability is not available in Microsoft Office, then the functionality will not work. If you set up the same linking steps outside of Objective
Linked objects are easily identified by an icon next to the object icon. Hovering your cursor over the icon displays the number of linked objects as shown in the example:
An internet link is identified by an 
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Note: Working with linked documents in Objective
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Compound with |
Links to documents that must be edited at the same time as this document. The other document also has a ‘compound with’ link to this document. |
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Cross-reference |
Links to related documents that provide more information. The related object also has a ‘cross-reference’ link to this object. |
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Depends on |
Links to documents that form part of the current document’s content. For example, a logo embedded in a document. |
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Duplicate |
A link to this object’s duplicate. The duplicated object will also have a ‘duplicate’ link to this object. |
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Former |
A link to a previous object. The previous object will have a ‘later’ link. |
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Later |
A link to a later object. The later object will have a ‘former’ link. |
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Reference |
Links to related objects that provide more information. The link is not visible on the referenced object. |
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Rendition |
A link to this object’s rendition, e.g., the PDF version. |
- You will not be able to link documents if you do not have the appropriate privileges to the document you wish to link to. Your privileges govern whether you are able to edit or only view linked documents.
- You will not be able to edit any linked documents if you do not have 'Edit' privileges to the parent or any of the child linked documents, and if they are currently locked for editing by someone else.
- If you choose not to add the parent of a new linked document on the Release from edit dialog box, all child linked documents are also not added.
- At this stage, there is no support for new sheet capability of AutoCAD drawings.
- When you are adding parent and child linked documents and choosing your publishing options or changing the publishing options of a parent and/or child linked documents, make sure that you set corporate value for both the parent and child linked documents to be the same. Otherwise you may run into complications depending on what limit has been set for Maximum Versions Available for their parent container. For example, you may find that a version of either your parent or child linked document may no longer be available when you need them, as they have been removed from the system as the documents are versioned over time.