Question:

Why does a Formatted Output not Show a Related Document?

Answer:

It is very likely that the document is not the latest version of the document.

Formatted Outputs leverages VQL. VQL, by default, will only ever search for the latest version of documents for matches. In the case where a non-latest version of a document is linked to an MDCC record, trying to use Formatted Output to "print" the DCC record will not return the non-latest doc version.

For example, If a user used DCC-01 to release MyDoc 1.0, then waited 6 months (such that in a separate DCC-02 MyDoc was released to 2.0, and 1.0 was superseded), and the user then tried to 'print' DCC-01, MyDoc 1.0 would not be included in the formatted output.

This is because VQL searched for "all documents which point to this DCC", which saw "MyDoc 2.0" (the latest version of MyDoc), and saw that MyDoc 2.0 doesn't reference MDCC-01, and moved on to the next document in the search.

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