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To propagate trace relationships to branched documents
1. Open or select the document that you want to propagate trace relationships to.
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You must not open or select a historical version of the document. It must be as of now.
2. Select Document > Propagate Traces To. The first panel of the Propagate Traces wizard displays.
3. Select the document that you want to copy traces from.
4. The document you select should have trace relationships that you want to propagate to the document you selected in Step 1.
To copy trace relationships from the document you selected in Step 1, select Same as "Copy to Start" document.
To copy trace relationships from a branch of the document you selected in Step 1, choose it from the list. The most recent predecessor is selected by default.
Click Next. The second panel of the Propagate Traces wizard displays.
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Your Windchill RV&S administrator may define custom column sets for the Propagate Traces wizard. The custom column set displays only if you have not previously saved a default column set for the wizard in your ViewSet. If you saved a default column set, you can delete and re-import your ViewSet to see the new custom column set.
5. Select the document that has a trace relationship with the document that you want to copy traces from. You can select a document that has any type of trace relationship.
Click Next. The third panel of the Propagate Traces wizard displays.
6. Select the document that you want to create a trace relationship for:
Create a trace relationship for the document you selected in Step 4 by selecting Same as “Copy from end” document. Use this option when you want to copy an existing trace relationship to a document to a branch of that document. This option is not available if you selected the Same as “Copy to start” document option in Step 3.
Create a trace relationship for a branch of the document you select in Step 4. The most recent predecessor is listed first and selected by default.
Click Next. The fourth panel of the Propagate Traces wizard displays.
7. Select the trace relationship(s) that you want to propagate to the document identified in Step 5. You can select any of the trace relationships that exist between the document identified in Step 3 and the document identified in Step 4. Usually there is only one relationship.
Click Next. The confirmation panel of the Propagate Traces wizard displays.
8. Click Propagate. A dialog box displays the status of the propagation.