Working with item links

You can link items to other items in the same project to establish relationships and manage changes that may impact other items. You can link items in parent/child or peer relationships. See Linking examples for common uses for linking.

Tip:  If you frequently view information about items linked to other items, you may want to add linked items columns to list windows. You can easily view and navigate to more information about linked items from these columns. See Viewing linked item information in list windows. To identify items with broken links, add the Has Broken Links column to the list window. Broken links occur when a parent/child link does not have a parent item or all child items are removed, or when a peer link only has one item.

1. Click the Links tab when you are viewing or editing an item.

2. Click Add Link to create a link. See Adding links.

3. Select a link and click a button to perform an action.

Button	Action
View Link	View read-only link information. See Viewing link information.
Edit Link	Open the link for editing. See Editing and deleting links.
Delete Link	Delete the link.
Diagram Link	View a diagram of the relationships between linked items. See Diagramming links.

4. Select a link and an item in the Link Details area and click a button to perform an action.

Button	Action
View Item	Open the read-only linked item.
Edit Item	Open the linked item for editing.
Investigate	View the suspect dependencies. See Investigating suspect dependencies.
Clear Suspect	Clear the suspect flag on items marked as suspect. See Clearing suspect items.
Mark Suspect	Mark the item as suspect to indicate changes may be needed. See Marking items as suspect.

5. Click OK when you finish.