Hello,
We have a need to create something like a Referenced By link between WTParts and EPMDocuments. Our use case is mainly for Dynamic Documents (Arbortext), which contain product specific documentation.
We have WTParts representing top level assemblies.
We have Arbortext authored product documentation as Dynamic Documents for the WTPart assemblies.
The groups maintaining the WTPart and the Dynamic Documents are independent.
Requirements for change for the product and the documentation are completely independent.
Revisions to the WTPart often do not require revision of the Dynamic Documents, the individual revising the WTPart would not always know the correct course of action for the documentation.
Revisions to the Dynamic Document never require a revision to the WTPart.
We require a Version to Master link that will work for Dynamic Documents similar to how Reference by Links work between a WTPart version and a WTDocument master. This would allow the two groups to work as independently as possible while maintaining the link between the objects we require.
The only out of the box association between the objects is content, which is version to version and the configurable link object does not support EPMDocs. This only leaves customisation as a solution. Dynamic documents are a are a sub type of EPMDocs (so are CADDocuments), if we put something in place for EPMDocuments then we can use it for both objects. Like many customers we have use cases for reference linking some CAD content to WTParts also.
It seems likely to me that someone might have already done something like we need. Has anyone done it or know of any partners that might sell a solution?