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title: "Navigating relations"
slug: "navigating-links"
updated: 2026-05-12T11:39:25Z
published: 2026-05-12T11:39:25Z
canonical: "help.sovelia.com/navigating-links"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.sovelia.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Navigating relations

Objects are linked together to:

- form bill of materials
- attach documents and drawings to items
- define what is changed by an engineering change order
- etc.

## Object structure

You can view and expand the object structure in the grid view.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/b4de53ee-d7ea-47b4-9a73-8323e3c9c14c/Images/Documentation/navigating-links-image-zr8upg12.png)

**![](https://cdn.document360.io/b4de53ee-d7ea-47b4-9a73-8323e3c9c14c/Images/Documentation/image-1778585847772.png)**opens all levels of the structure.

You can also control the depth of the expansion using the multiselect menu option.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/b4de53ee-d7ea-47b4-9a73-8323e3c9c14c/Images/Documentation/image-1778585958789.png)

## Where used

***Parents*** and ***Top parents*** tabs show objects that the current object is used in. ***Parents*** are direct links and ***Top parents*** are the highest level objects (not used anywhere) of the where used hierarchy.

There are also other tabs that show related objects. For example, ***ECO*** will show the Engineering change order that has been used to drive the creation or modification of the item.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/b4de53ee-d7ea-47b4-9a73-8323e3c9c14c/Images/Documentation/navigating-links-image-u0dg9dsw.png)