Creating relationships between artifacts by using links

A link represents a relationship between artifacts. Links are mechanisms for referring to related information. You create some links manually while other links are created automatically when you perform certain tasks.

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For example, links are automatically created when you embed a sketch in a storyboard, add a part to a sketch, or when you embed an artifact in a text document; however, you might manually create a link from text in a requirement to a use case or to some other artifact. You can also create a links to any external resource that has a URL.
Note: If you want to link to a new or existing requirement, you need to use the Mark as Requirement command rather than the Create Link command. To see a movie showing how this is done, refer to the tutorial Create a document, requirements and glossaries. Also note that when creating or renaming an artifact, do not use the following characters:
\ / | : * ? " < > & are invalid characters

A link can originate from an artifact, an element within an artifact, a document, or a range of text within a document. For external artifacts, such as Microsoft® Word documents that are uploaded to the project, you can only create links at the artifact level. You can create links in any artifact or document in the repository. When creating a link, you can either link to existing artifacts or create new artifacts.


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