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title: "Using a Link Storage on a Transfer"
description: "Using a Link Storage on a Transfer"
keywords: "Using a Link Storage on a Transfer"
url: "https://myrapidi.com/wiki/using_a_link_storage_on_a_transfer"
locale: "en"
published: "2025-11-17T15:55:33Z"
modified: "2025-11-17T15:55:33Z"
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Once your Link Storage is created, the next step is to **populate it with values**. This is very easy — you simply assign the Link Storage to your transfer.

To do this, open the **Transfer** and go to the **General** section. There you’ll find a field called **“Link Storage”** , where you can choose any of the Link Storages you have created.

### **What happens when a Link Storage is selected?**

When a Transfer has a Link Storage assigned, the following logic applies:

- Each time the Transfer runs, **every source record processed** by the Transfer is checked.
- If a matching destination record exists (or is newly created), Rapidi will **store the link field values** — defined in your Link Storage — into the Link Storage automatically.
- If the stored values differ from what the Transfer reads, Rapidi will **update them dynamically**.

In short: the Link Storage is continuously kept up-to-date at runtime.

### **Tip for initial data sync:**

If you are using **Source Control** or **Mirror** so the Transfer only reads changed records, you may want to load **all** existing records the first time you start using Link Storage.

To do this, simply **reset the RTI value to 0 or -1** so that the Transfer reads all records. This ensures that **all link values** from both systems are inserted into the Link Storage from the start.