Link items and follow the trace

Link a requirement to a risk, a scope line or another requirement by searching for it, and see an item's parents, children and links in the side panel.

Updated 19 October 2026

Who this is for: business analysts.

A link says that two items belong together: a requirement and the risk it addresses, a requirement and the scope line it comes from. Links stay in place when you move items around the tree, and a link always shows on both items.

Link two items

Open a requirement by clicking it in any view.
Scroll to Traceability.
Click in the box that says Link an item — search by title, or a key like your project's key.
Type at least two characters of the other item's title or key.
Choose the item from the results. They are grouped under Requirements, Trackers, Scope and Analysis.

A requirement's Traceability section with the search box open, listing a matching requirement to link. — Fictional demonstration project. All names and details are invented and do not represent any real organisation, including any that shares a name with it.

Remove a link

In the item's Traceability section, point at the link.
Choose the cross that appears, labelled Remove link.

See the whole trace in the side panel

Select an item, by opening it or by moving to its row in the spreadsheet.
Choose the panel button at the top right of the screen to open the side panel.
Choose the Traceability tab.
Read Scope, Parent chain, Children and Linked items. Choose any of them to go to it.

Raising a question from an item

Under Traceability there is a Raise a question button. Type the question and press Enter. It is added to the Question Log and linked to the item you are on. See The Question Log.

Good to know

Every link you add this way is of the kind Relates to. You do not need to choose a type.
A requirement created from a scope line is linked to it automatically.
If the side panel says “Loaded a while ago — links added elsewhere may not be shown”, choose Refresh.
To see which requirements have no links at all, use the traceability matrix.

Trackers — risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions and ideas
Keep risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions and ideas beside your requirements, add them quickly and link them to what they affect.
Scope lines and the scope document
Record what is in and out of scope, turn an in-scope line into requirements, and print or export the scope document.
The traceability matrix
See which requirements link to scope, risks, tests and each other, find the requirements that link to nothing, and narrow the matrix to one class or level.