Broke Cross Refs to Text insets

[Joseph Lorenzini]

Hi Richard,

Thanks a bunch. That's exactly what I need to do.

Sincerely,
Joe

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Combs, Richard
<richard.combs at polycom.com>wrote:

> Joseph Lorenzini
>
> > I am using FrameMaker 9. In some of my books, I have cross references to
> > content within text insets. For some unknown reason, they periodically
> get
> > broken when i do an update. Then, I have to manually update the broken
> > links
> > and everything works fine again. Is there some obvious issue I am not
> > accounting for that's causing this breakage?
>
> How are you creating the xrefs?
>
> When you update the book, FM retrieves fresh copies of the text insets from
> their source files/flows. If you created the xrefs by pointing them to the
> destination paragraphs (the standard procedure), then when the text insets
> are updated, the xref destination markers that FM created for you are
> overwritten.
>
> The proper way to create an xref to a destination inside a text inset
> involves some extra steps.
>
> 1) In the text inset source file, put your cursor at the destination for
> the xref and select Special > Marker.
>
> 2) In the Marker dialog, set Marker Type to Cross-Ref and Marker Text to
> something meaningful that will allow you to identify the location of this
> marker later. Click New Marker.
>
> 3) Save and close the text inset source file.
>
> 3) Back in the file that contains the text inset, update the text inset.
>
> 4) Insert the xref as usual except: (a) in the Cross-Reference dialog, set
> Document to Current and Source Type to Cross-Reference Markers; (b) In the
> Cross-Reference Markers list, select the meaningful marker text you created
> in step 2.
>
> Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
>
> HTH!
>
> Richard G. Combs
> Senior Technical Writer
> Polycom, Inc.
> richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
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