# Linked custom cards

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### **Why this matters**

Journey management doesn’t stop at identifying a problem. Now you can explicitly connect pain points, solutions and opportunities, helping teams see dependencies and track progress across your portfolio.

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### **How to link custom cards**

You can link your custom cards to each other – as many as you need. Here's how to do it:

#### **In the Journey Editor**

* Double click a portfolio item card to open its **card sidebar.**
* Click **"Add linked items"** (or **View linked items,** if there's already existing ones) to open the **Link Tree**.

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* Once you opened the **Link Tree view,** add or edit connected portfolio items, or explore these connections in detail by clicking the plus button, or hovering below any linked item.

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* **You'll see** the links you created as a **pill** connected to the card → *Hover* to see a quick overview

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* You also get to the link tree from **the custom card edit-modal**, including their statuses. In the example below, two opportunities are linked, of which one has the status "done" (green), and the other one is in progress (blue).

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* **Switch the card display to Linked items:** \
  Change your card to display the links directly instead of the usual portfolio item detail.

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#### **In the Portfolio Overview**

* **Link counts in the table:** See how many links each item has directly in the table view.

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### **The Link Tree**&#x20;

* Open it from any of the above described locations
* Add pain points, opportunities, or solutions from your workspace

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* See linked items per type, along with a **status bar** to track progress

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* Easily browse through all connections by clicking on "explore links" upon selecting a linked items.&#x20;

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This helps you visually navigate and manage complex relationships between challenges and responses.


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