I. Intro
When you reference Document A in Document B, a bi-directional link between A and B will be created. You can find A at the bottom of B as "Mentioned Docs", find B at the bottom of A as "Backlinks", or a graph of how they are linked at the bottom of both.
Similarly, you can find a graph of recent documents on the Docs homepage in the web version.
Note: In this article, "reference" means pasting a link to or @mentioning another document, not adding hyperlinks to text.
II. Steps
View document references of a single document
Platform requirement: These steps can only be performed on the desktop app or the web version.
Open a document and go to the bottom to check the reference relationships between documents.
Note: Only documents that you can access will be displayed.
You can find the following content in the reference block:
- Backlinks shows documents that have referenced the current document.
- You can click the or ▼ icon to the left of the document titles to show or hide the context of the line referencing the current document, or click the line to check the context in full length.
- Note: Documents from trusted parties are not listed, even if you have access.
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- Mentioned Docs shows documents that have been referenced in the current document.
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- Graph view shows how the current document is related to other documents.
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- A blue line indicates that the current document is referenced by the other document.
- A yellow line indicates that the current document has referenced the other document.
- A dot moving from Document A to Document B indicates that A references B.
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- You can do the following in a graph view:
- Click a document icon to re-center the graph view on that document.
- Double-click a document icon to open it.
- Search for the document in the search box at the top and select the document from the results to re-center the graph view.
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Hide and show document references in a single document
Platform requirement: These steps can only be performed on the desktop app or the web version.
For documents that you can edit, you can hide the reference block by clicking the ✕ icon in the upper-right corner of it. After you click Hide in the pop-out window, the reference block will be invisible to both you and other collaborators.
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If you want to bring out the block again, click the ··· icon in the upper-right corner of the document, then click More > Show Bi-Directional Links.
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View recent document references
Platform requirement: These steps can only be performed in the web version.
Click the Graph view icon in the upper-right corner of the Lark Docs homepage to go to the graph view of the recently viewed document.
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- A blue line indicates that the current document is referenced by the other document.
- A yellow line indicates that the current document has referenced the other document.
- A dot moving from Document A to Document B indicates that A references B.
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Note: Only documents that you can access will be displayed. If you have many documents, the view may not be able to show all of them.
You can do the following in a graph view:
- Click a document icon to re-center the graph view on that document.
- Double-click a document icon to open it.
- Search for the document in the search box at the top and select the document from the results to re-center the graph view.
III. FAQs