Backtracking cross-references

[Steve Rickaby]

At 12:18 pm -0500 7/2/06, Ridder, Fred wrote:

>Not so easy. The problem being that there can be many
>references pointing to the same destination marker. And
>there's no way to know which external files (if any) might
>be pointing to a given marker.
>
>In our pubs group, we use the now-discontinued FrameLink
>interface between FrameMaker and our Documentum
>docbase, and one of the services it provides is tracking
>of all inter-file references. It's a great benefit of the system
>even if it only identifies the referring file and not the specific
>x-refs within those files.

Thanks Fred. What foxes me is that almost the only thing that FrameMaker's Find interface, which is normally so strong, cannot do is to search for the text displayed by a cross-reference. Or a variable, for that matter. They're odd omissions.
-- 
Steve