Contract Relationships
Contract relationships are associations between contracts. Contract relationships provide supporting and referential information for negotiating contracts. For example, a software sales contract can be related to a hardware purchase contract, so that software pricing discounts can be calculated based on the volume of hardware purchases.
You can add, update, and remove contract relationships. You can use the Manage Contract Relationship Types task in the Setup and Maintenance work area to view and add the lookup codes for contract relationships. The lookup codes you add in this task are displayed to a contract author on the edit contract page. A contract author can then access these values by clicking drop-down list.
Before you define a contract relationship, you must set the Enable Related Documents option in the contract type. You can create relationships only at the header level, and not at the line level.
These rules apply to contract relationships:
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Contract relationships are one-sided. If contract A is related to contract B, then contract B isn't automatically related to contract A unless it's explicitly added.
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You can create or update relationships only for valid contracts.