Lifecycle Links
Lifecycle links are links that target documents across sequences in the same application.
Lifecycle links are automatically updated in the Calyx RIM link database to always point to the most current or specific version of a document in the application for published output. All lifecycle linking in Calyx RIM is done through the Link Inspector.
Lifecycle links have three basic types: broken, stale, and historical.
- Broken links point to content that does not exist or has moved due to lifecycle operations. They occur when a leaf is replaced in a new sequence with a new document, but that document's links are still targeting the old content and must be updated with new path information.
- Stale links are links where the source document and target document reside in different sequences, and Calyx RIM has not needed to update the link to insure a valid target during publishing. These links start in the old sequence targeting the current sequence. Any link marked as stale should be evaluated by the publisher for the correct target, because the target document may need to be operated on in the current sequence to resolve the link correctly, or you may need to verify that the historical target of the link is still valid for the reviewer.
- Historical links point from updated documents in newer sequences back to documents in old sequences.