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[Former Member]

Situation: Multiple identical documents are attached to multiple identical process step nodes in one project. To ease document management/maintenance, these documents are linked. Now, if these multiple identical and linked documents are copied and loaded to another project (using an external tool), will they maintain their original links to one another within that new project? I know they will not maintain links to the original project since they are copies.

If links between the copied documents are not maintained, is there a way these documents could be easily identified in the structure and linked en masse without going into each structure and linking them individually? These are all identical documents, attached to identical process step nodes.

Thank you,

Megan N.

[Former Member]

Situation: Multiple identical documents are attached to multiple identical process step nodes in one project. To ease document management/maintenance, these documents are linked. Now, if these multiple identical and linked documents are copied and loaded to another project (using an external tool), will they maintain their original links to one another within that new project? I know they will not maintain links to the original project since they are copies.

If links between the copied documents are not maintained, is there a way these documents could be easily identified in the structure and linked en masse without going into each structure and linking them individually? These are all identical documents, attached to identical process step nodes.

Thank you,

Megan N.

[Former Member]

Hello Megan,

What do you mean with using an external tool ? With this external tool, do you 'download' the documents on your local pc and somehow 'upload' them into a new project ?

If the external is not also extracting the linking information between the documents I am not sure that there is a way to automatically recreate the links as each new documents (even if they have the same content and are assigned to the same node) will be identified with new IDs. And this ID is used for the linking between documents.

So it depends if the 'external tool' can handle this linking information or not.

Best regards,

Thierry

[Former Member]

Thank you for your quick response, Thierry. The external tool to which I am referring is Mercury. Basically, we are creating scripts to automate some tasks, such as mass upload of documents to SolMan versus one at a time, as opposed to running scripts for testing purposes. As it turns out, and as you suggested, we will be generating another script in order to support mass linking.

Thanks again for your help!

Regards,

Megan