IfcDocumentInformationRelationship

Definition from IAI: An IfcDocumentInformationRelationship is a relationship class that enables a document to have the ability to reference other documents.

> HISTORY: New entity in IFC Release 2x.

### Use Definitions

This class can be used to describe relationships in which one document may reference one or more other sub documents or where a document is used as a replacement for another document (but where both the original and the replacing document need to be retained).

EXPRESS specification:

ENTITY IfcDocumentInformationRelationship;
RelatingDocument | : | IfcDocumentInformation;
RelatedDocuments | : | SET [1:?] OF IfcDocumentInformation;
RelationshipType | : | OPTIONAL IfcLabel;
END_ENTITY;

Attribute definitions:

RelatingDocument | : | The document that acts as the parent, referencing or original document in a relationship.
RelatedDocuments | : | The document that acts as the child, referenced or replacing document in a relationship.
RelationshipType | : | Describes the type of relationship between documents. This could be sub-document, replacement etc. The interpretation has to be established in an application context.

Inheritance graph

ENTITY IfcDocumentInformationRelationship;
ENTITY IfcDocumentInformationRelationship;
RelatingDocument | : | IfcDocumentInformation;
RelatedDocuments | : | SET [1:?] OF IfcDocumentInformation;
RelationshipType | : | OPTIONAL IfcLabel;
END_ENTITY;