### How is File Hierarchy Managed?

The SSA PDM Documents representing MS Office files are linked to one another in a way that reflects the dependencies between the actual files. The SSA PDM hierarchical representation of those dependencies reflects the links inserted in the MS Office files. Changes made in MS Office files are reflected in SSA PDM as follows:

- When a link is inserted into an MS Office file, the change is reflected in SSA PDM only after a Save to SSA PDM operation has been performed. After this operation, you can view the file and the related Document and SSA PDM File in SSA PDM.
- When a link is deleted from an MS Office file, after the file is saved to the SSA PDM, the link between the SSA PDM Documents is also removed, but the linked Document and related file are not deleted from SSA PDM.

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