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title: Link parent contract requests
description: Link parent contracts during drafting and negotiation phases to establish hierarchical relationship between the parent and child contracts.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/employee-service-management/contract-management-pro/cmpro-link-parent-cmr.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 parent contract requests

Link parent contracts during drafting and negotiation phases to establish hierarchical relationship between the parent and child contracts.

## About this task

This task links a parent contract request without copying any fields from it. If you also want to inherit configured fields from the parent into the child contract request, use [Link and inherit parent contract fields](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/contract-management-pro/cmpro-link-inhrt-prnt-flds.md) instead.

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

## Before you begin

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

**Note:** If the contract request is in Contract signed state, the parent contract request must be in Contract signed or Closed complete state.

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

Verify that the parent contract is a single contract type using own paper or third-party paper.

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 with for linking parent contracts.

5.  Select **Link contract**.

    The selected contract request is linked as a parent 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 are 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)