Compliance Glossary for Confluence

What is affected when a term changes?

Impact lookup returns artifacts connected to the term through imported or approved evidence links. Results can include requirements, documents, code references, tests, deviations, and release gates. The graph also shows broken or moved endpoints and bounded results. Candidate and rejected links stay outside the governed impact result.

Last verified against production v6 · 26 September 2026

At a glance

InputActionOutputLimit
Governed term nodeSelect Forward impactConnected governed nodes and linksThe term must exist in the deposited graph
Imported or approved linkAdd it to the impact indexQueryable evidence relationshipCandidate and rejected links are excluded
Broken or moved endpointPreserve its endpoint stateVisible issue in the resultThe app does not repair the source
Hop and result boundsRun a bounded graph walkTruncation state when a bound is reachedUp to 20 hops and 1,000 results per request

How it works

  1. Open Enterprise evidence workspace.
  2. Search for the frozen term.
  3. Open its retained evidence.
  4. Select Forward impact.
  5. Review every returned artifact and endpoint issue.
  6. Open the evidence attached to each retained hop.

Example

An approved term changes before a controlled release. The governance team opens the prior baseline and selects Forward impact. The graph shows an approved requirement link, two document links, a code reference, and a test. A moved endpoint remains visible. The team uses that result to scope review and external reissue work.

What this does not mean

Impact lookup reports only relationships present as imported or approved evidence. It does not infer every real-world dependency. A missing result can mean no governed link was deposited. It does not prove that an artifact is unaffected.

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Next step

Review governed impact before changing an approved term used by controlled artifacts.

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Verification basis: production v6 code, tests, manifest, and operations guidance. Verified 26 September 2026.