Linking Methods

This example project demonstrates the different methods by which links to parent Word and Excel documents can be created from child Excel specifications, child Word specifications, and child Word process documents.

It provides a practical reference for structuring parent-child relationships across document types, so traceability can be maintained consistently regardless of whether content is authored in Word paragraphs, Word tables, or Excel worksheets.

To create a project based on this template: select Projects => Create New Project => tick Based on Template, select "Linking Methods", select a location and project name, then click Create.

Parent Excel Specification

This parent document contains high-level spreadsheet-based requirements and serves as a source specification to which child documents can link for inheritance and decomposition.

Parent Word Specification

This parent specification defines higher-level requirements in Word format and demonstrates parent records that can be referenced from both child Word and child Excel documents.

Child Excel Specification

This child spreadsheet shows how individual rows can link back to requirements in parent Word or parent Excel specifications, supporting clear upward traceability in tabular form.

Child Word Process

This child process document illustrates how process-oriented content in Word can reference parent specification items, enabling procedural narratives to remain connected to governing requirements.

Child Word Specification

This child Word specification demonstrates requirement-level linking from Word content back to parent specification records, including links created from free-form paragraph and table-based text.