Linking documents to each other and associations

[mwildam]

Hi there,

I tried to link two documents together as they are related to each other so when a user finds one of these two then he/she should be able to get to the other as well. Let's say something in the detail view that says "Related documents" and then having a list of documents that somebody has linked because being of interest if you look at the first document.

I stumbled over associations but it seems that this only applies for meta information and not for documents themselves. I was not able to find a possibility to add links to other documents. I do not mean to create a link to a document in a different folder which I consider as something completely different.

Is there any possibility to achieve this?

[mrogers]

associations are what you need to use.    

But I'm not sure how much support there is in the UI to display and use those associations.    As you have seen file/folder is one example of a "contains" association but you can define your own types of association, the issue you will have is getting those assocs to display.

[mwildam]

Thanks, at least I know that I am right there with the associations - I wasn't sure. But I am pretty sure that there is no support at all for those in the UI (other than folder-content relationships).