Relating Features to Initiatives vs. Adding Features to Initiatives

What is the challenge?

There are two ways a user can associate a feature to an initiative - but only one way officially links them.

I am building various quarterly reports that display all features associated with an initiative.

I went to each feature > Related > Linked Records > Add > "Relates to": Initiative.

All features appropriately displayed with their respective initiative on my quarterly planning pivot report.

Features were missing their respective initiatives on our feature ranking report.

I realized that it was because each feature had not been directly added to the "initiative artifact".

There should be one path to primarily link/relate features to initiatives. While I recognize that there may be use cases for linking in different ways I am just not aware of, the linking of artifacts needs to be clearer for the user.

What is the impact?

Duplicative work, missing items in your report.

Describe your idea

Reduce the number of ways in which a user assigns a feature to an initiative.