Understanding reference relationships

Choosing the right revision methodology is vital to managing reference relationships. There are two basic options for controlling reference relationships:

• Use document workflow: Parent documents always reference the last released revision of child documents.
• Use derived documents: Parent documents reference the child document revision that was released when the parent was last released.

The following sections discuss each of these options and their ramifications on reference relationships. Regardless of the option used, the document history displayed in the Show Revisions dialog will be maintained as expected.