{"id":1178,"date":"2012-09-20T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T21:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Polarion-Blog\/10-Tips-for-Polarion-LiveDocs-8-How-to-Reuse-or-Reference-Work\/ba-p\/380717"},"modified":"2026-03-26T05:45:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:45:39","slug":"10-tips-for-polarion-livedocs-8-how-to-reuse-or-reference-work-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/10-tips-for-polarion-livedocs-8-how-to-reuse-or-reference-work-items\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Tips for Polarion LiveDocs &#8211; #8 How to Reuse or Reference Work Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Carola Hartlieb, Polarion Professional Services<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Before starting with reusing work items in your document you need to decide which concept is the right one for your need.<\/p>\n<p>a) If you are looking for a copy of an existing work item or document check out the &#8220;reuse&#8221; concepts:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2012\/07\/reuse.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2194\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2012\/07\/reuse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>b) If you like to add a reference to an already existing work item to your document start with:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2012\/07\/referenceWI.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2195\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2012\/07\/referenceWI-300x144.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>c) If you need variant support start looking at the &#8220;branch&#8221; concepts:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2012\/07\/branch.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2196\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2012\/07\/branch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next: LiveDocs Tip #9 Document Comments for Word Round-trip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Carola Hartlieb, Polarion Professional Services<\/p>\n<p>Before starting with reusing work items in your document you need to decide which concept is the right one for your need.<\/p>\n<p>a) If you are looking fo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[1457],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6512,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/6512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}