Customizing trace links with subtypes

Teamcenter administrators can create custom trace link subtypes in the Business Modeler IDE. The default trace link subtype is Trace Link.

• Only one trace link of a given subtype is allowed between the same two objects in the same direction.

• In either direction between two objects, you can create as many trace links as the number of available trace link subtypes.

When you create a trace link, you can accept the default subtype, Trace Link. Or, you can assign a custom subtype, created in the Business Modeler IDE by a Teamcenter administrator.

• Custom subtypes let you create two or more trace links between the same objects in the same direction, if you assign a different subtype to each trace link. For example, a trace link from defining requirement A to complying requirement B has the Trace Link subtype. A second defining trace link, with the custom subtype S, can be created from requirement A to complying requirement B.

• Trace links of the same subtype are allowed in both directions between the same objects. For example: Defining requirement A is linked to complying requirement B, with the Trace Link subtype assigned to the trace link. You can create a trace link of the same subtype to link requirement B, as the defining object, back to requirement A as the complying object, completing circular trace links.