Simple Linkage Procedure

The simple linkage procedure helps to link the affected objects to the change or document revision directly without the need to select the object from the list of affected objects.

You can perform this simple linkage procedure if the family defined for an object has a single member as an object. In other words, if a Change Management family has a single object, for example, BOM line object.

The usual procedure to link one object to another is as follows:

From the Object Main session, click Attached Objects to start the Families Members with Count (dmsys9113m000) session. This session displays the list of objects to which the parent object can be linked.

The user can select and double-click any one of the objects to start the Object Links (dmcom9110m000) session, where you can add the record.

In the simple linkage procedure, you bypass the Families Members with Count (dmsys9113m000) session, because only one object exists to which the parent can be linked. Therefore, if the user selects the Attached Objects option, the Object Links (dmcom9110m000) session opens directly.

Example

To link a change request to a document:

From the Documents (dmdoc1510m000) session, on the appropriate menu, click Document Attachments. The family for storing the document links is FATT_DOC, for which the owner is DOCS objects and the members are all the ERP objects that have been specified in the members list for the FATT_DOC family. You can see this from the Object Families (dmsys1512m000) session.

The Families Members with Count (dmsys9113m000) session opens to display all the member objects, such as CR, FLDR, CH, CP_VER, and so on. Select Change Request Object (CR) and double-click the record to open the Object Links (dmcom9110m000) session. The user can select Add the Change Request for the change the request that must be linked to the document.

The same example can be used to assume that the FATT_DOC family contains only one member, and that member is the CR.

In this scenario, if the user selects the Document Attachments option from the appropriate menu, the Object Links (dmcom9110m000) session starts immediately. The intermediate Families Members with Count (dmsys9113m000) session does not appear, because the FATT_DOC family has only one member object.