Q&A about linking in Workiva, including source links, destination links, links in text, paragraph links, sub-cell links, link limits...all things links!
I ran my Document Health check and it came up with the following error: The error seems to be related to a link that I've already deleted from my document. The only way I see this error is if I turn on my Track changes. How do I resolve this? Wh...
We are trying to link text from Document 1 to Document 2. The text has a lot of italic words but when I link from document 1 to document 2 that is lost. We are also linking from Document 1 to Document 3 and have zero issues linking there. I isolat...
Hello, We make ample use of the link functions and prefer to link variance numbers into our text explanation cells. Currently we want to present the same explanation in multiple locations with the same format but Workiva is notifying me that "Link...
Outside of XBRL translation is there a way in WDesk to translate a number in a spreadsheet to text e.g. 6,000 to six thousand?
Good Afternoon, I've tried to look for the answer, but I am looking to confirm whether there is a way to move source links from spreadsheet A to spreadsheet B without breaking my destination links in my presentation. Our investor team currently ha...
Hi, Is there a way to remove the dead link from the link properties panel ? For exemple in the picture below, I have many links in which i have delete the destination but they appears into the link properties panel, I don't want them to appear, d...
Hi - is there any way to a delete a section in a document which has destination links, without having to go to each link and removing the link?
Is it possible to share data between workspaces? I would like to copy a table out of one workspace and paste it in another so it can be used in both workspaces.
How can I see all links that are in spreadsheets? I want to be able to find where a link is going to a document so I can delete it, but I don't want to have to go link by link to find it.
Hi, We are currently using Workiva NextGen and have a table in the document with multiple rows that need to be re-ordered. They are currently linked to various spreadsheets and are all destination links. Cutting and pasting prompts me to remove th...
Hello, I build a spreadsheet that has multiple tabs and over 400 rows on most tabs. I am currently utilizing source links to grab the lower level data and combine it into summary views in the same file. However, i have reach my "Limit Count Maxi...
I have a cell in a table with some subcell links. For everything to fit in the cell, it needs to wrap. However, the line break happens between a dollar sign and the amount on one of the links (see screenshot). I don't want to put in a hard return ...
I was not able to indent the second line of a linked cell after choosing not to "Use Link Formatting from Source". Is there a way to do that? For the cell above, I would like to indent the word "net."
Hi - We are attempting to transition from classic to next gen, in doing so, we are cleaning up the doc links. An issue we are having is the 'Linked Files Report' shows a link that the 'Doc Links' does not show. So it is impossible to determine whe...
How do I make a destination link into the source link. The case I have is a transitions document (X) with a table of contents in a table using source links from another document (Y) transitioned with (X). Here is a screen capture:
I noticed that in the latest blackline update linked cells are showing in a much larger font when exported to pdf. Was this intended, because it looks odd? Below is an example.
I am creating a presentation and would like to know if I can place a link to a document within the presentation? Basically, I want the person reading the presentation (who does not have permission to edit the presentation or document) to select th...
Currently, the linked files report doesn't show the location of where a file might be linked within the document, it just states all of the files the document is linking to. Is Workiva working on updating this so that if there's a file we don't wa...
In Classic, it was possible to check all of a document's links in order to check that a document was only linked to the correct workbook. This has been especially useful when disclosures with linking was copied from other documents with the links...
I ran a doc link validation and get a link to the prior document which is not to be linked to the current document. The link itself doesn't bring me to the "link" source, so I can update the link. How can I fix it?
Is it possible to change the letter case in the destination link from a next gen document to a spreadsheet cell? The document title is all uppercase letters but I want the destination linked cell to show as title case? I don't see anywhere to set ...
I have added new links to controls database in a document. Instead of the usual green triangle, I'm getting a green underscore for the control references & control summaries in the document. What's more, the search function will recognize the Co...
Hi - Similar to default setting for tables font 10 arial etc. Is there a default where I can state that all text numbers should be in thousands and percentages in the workbook and the document should be stretched to one decimal point? For the e...
Hi Team, Can we create multiple destination links within a single spreadsheet cell? If not, is there a way to concatenate data from two cells in one spreadsheet and link them in an other spreadsheet cell?
Hi! I have noticed in Next Gen that when I update numbers in the spreadsheet that is linked to the document, the document isn't updated until I press publish on the spreadsheet? In the classic version it updated automatically. How do I fix this?
Whenever I link a cell that has a superscript in it, the superscript formatting does not carryover to the destination even when I select apply formatting. This is happening between two next gen documents. Is there something that I may be missing? ...
In classic documents, when we created a source text link in a document, partial sections of the text could be formatted differently. For example, you could italicize a few words within a sentence and that formatting would carry through to the des...
Am I able to drill down into the Linked Files Report to find where in the document I have outside sources? In Classic we could go straight to the location, however, in Next gen it only directs us to the document. This means we have to search throu...
