The "Restrict "Relationship Tab" options to latest versions" setting in Workspace Relationships does two things:
- Limit selection of revision-controlled items to Latest Version only, making the "All"/"Latest"/"Working" selection filter in the Add Relationships box redundant
- Controls relationships behaviour when revision-controlled items increment a revision
On 1, I have the following suggestion:
- Grey out and disable the "All"/"Latest"/"Working" selection filter in the Add Relationships box, when "Restrict "Relationship Tab" options to latest versions" is ticked
On 2, I have the following suggestions:
- Update the help documentation (link) to describe all scenarios, including:
- Behaviour when a relationship is added to an Unreleased working revision
- Behaviour when a relationship is added to a Production working revision
- Behaviour when a relationship is added to a Production revision
- Behaviour when a relationship is added to a superseded revision
- Clarify the behaviour when the relationship is Uni-directional (e.g. is it uni-directional from the source item or the target item?)
- Describe a corresponding linking pick list setup to match the above behaviour - we often use selections in linking picklists to revision-controlled workspaces to create relationships via scripting. It would be preferable for the revision in the picklist to synchronise with the revision with the bi-directional relationship without manual intervention.
I have had to spend hours trying to work this out and I'm still not sure of it...
