Add guidance on linking releases from different publications #1430
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Focus - Documentation
Includes corrections, clarifications, new guidance, and UI/UX issues
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We should provide guidance since this issue has come up a couple of times recently
Unless the publications use consistent mappings, reusing the same OCIDs across publications could result in unpredictable and nonsensical results. For example, unless they use an identical approach to assigning local identifiers to objects in arrays, then awards, contracts etc. will overwrite and/or duplicate each other in nonsensical ways.
Roughly, the guidance can be:
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field (added in Add links field #928) so that users can identify that contracting processes are the same, whilst avoiding incorrect merging of releases.We can also include some of the content from CRM-7250 around the governance and technical considerations for coordinating publications.
cc @yolile
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