---
title: Link and inherit parent contract fields
description: Link parent contracts during drafting and negotiation phases to establish a hierarchical relationship between the parent and child contracts, and automatically inherit the configured fields from the parent contract.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/employee-service-management/contract-management-pro/cmpro-link-inhrt-prnt-flds.html
release: australia
product: Contract Management Pro
classification: contract-management-pro
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 2
breadcrumb: [Linking parent-child contracts, Common contract request tasks, Use, Contract Management Pro, Legal and Contract Operations, Employee Service Management]
---

# Link and inherit parent contract fields

Link parent contracts during drafting and negotiation phases to establish a hierarchical relationship between the parent and child contracts, and automatically inherit the configured fields from the parent contract.

## About this task

This task links a parent contract request and copies configured fields from it into the child contract request. If you only want to establish the parent-child relationship without inheriting fields, use [Link parent contract requests](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/contract-management-pro/cmpro-link-parent-cmr.md) instead. That action also supports contract requests in Contract signed state.

The following video walks you through the process of linking a parent contract request and inheriting its fields.\[Omitted video\] Description: Video providing step-by-step instructions on linking parent contract request and inheriting its fields, approximately one and a half minutes long.

## Before you begin

Verify that the contract request is in Draft, Work in progress, or Awaiting review state.

You must be either assigned to the contract request or a group manager or a collaborator.

Verify that the parent contract is not a multiple contracts type third-party contract request.

Verify that the parent child mapping is configured. For more information, see [Configure field mapping for parent-child contract linking](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/contract-management-pro/cncor-conf-parent-child.md).

Role required: sn\_cm\_core.contract\_fulfiller

## Procedure

1.  Open the contract request from workspace that you are using.

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**Contract Workspace listing**

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1.  Navigate to **All** &gt; **Contract Workspace**.
2.  Click the list icon \(\[Omitted image "lsd-lcc-list-icon.png"\] Alt text: List icon\).
3.  Select **Contract requests** &gt; **All**
4.  Select a contract request.


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**Workspace used by your application**

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1.  Navigate to your workspace.
2.  Open the list that displays the contract requests.
3.  Select a contract request.


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</table>2.  Select the Related contract requests tab.

3.  Select **Link parent contract**.

4.  In the Link contract window, select the check box corresponding to the contract request that you want to link as a parent contract.

    **Note:** You can select only one contract request when linking it as a parent contract.

    \[Omitted image "cmpro-link-contract.png"\] Alt text: Link contract window for linking and inheriting fields from the parent contract.

5.  Select **Link and inherit fields**.

    The selected contract request is linked as a parent contract and its fields are inherited by the child contract. The parent-child relationship appears in a hierarchical order in the Related contract requests tab.

    The associated contract repository records for the contract requests will be automatically linked.

    The **Parent contract request** field is updated with the parent contract request number. The linked parent contract details appear in the activity stream.

    \[Omitted image "cmpro-parent-child-link.png"\] Alt text: Parent-child hierarchy in the Related contract requests tab


**Parent Topic:**[Linking parent-child contracts](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/contract-management-pro/cmpro-linking-parent-child.md)