Fw: Hyperlink or cross reference to another book

[David Spreadbury]

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>From: David Spreadbury <dspreadb at yahoo.com>
>To: "Combs, Richard" <richard.combs at Polycom.com> 
>Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 10:50 AM
>Subject: Re: Hyperlink or cross reference to another book
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>I have thought about using this scheme for some of my books. i have a lot fo references to other documents in the document set.
>The gotcha is that the PDFs need to stay in the same relative relationship all the time, no exceptions.
>If the PDFs are being distributed to customers, internally or externally, you have no control as to how they will be stored on the customers computer. If they copy one, and not the other(s), the link(s) won't work. If they later copy the other(s), will they place them in the same relationship? Again, you have no control. If the links don't work, due to the files not retaining the original relationship to each other, then your customers will not be happy.
>As long as the relationship stays the same, from build to end user, then everyone will be happy and everything will
 work.
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>> From: "Combs, Richard" <richard.combs at Polycom.com>
>>To: Pam Harper <pharper at bailiwick.com>; "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com> 
>>Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 10:19 AM
>>Subject: RE: Hyperlink or cross reference to another book
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>>Pam Harper wrote:
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>>> Can I add a link in one book to another book? How would I do it in
>>> Frame 10. I want to reference a specific section in a another book and
>>> am not sure how to do it, despite searching for answers on this. 
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>>I only vaguely remember how to do this, but I don't see any responses. Assuming your deliverables are PDF, I think using a cross-reference in FM will work if (1) both books and all the files in them are open when you create the two PDFs, and (2) in their final destinations, the relative path between the PDFs is the same as the relative path between the FM books. 
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>>> If I
>>> use a cross reference, what would I select for a Building Block in the
>>> list?
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>>The good news: You don't need to define a new cross-reference format. Presumably you already have a cross-reference format for pointing to a numbered section heading (using the <$paranum> building block). The bad news:
 I'm pretty certain there's no way to include the title of the other PDF in the cross-reference format (how would FM know what it's going to be?). I guess you could insert a second cross-reference to the <$paratext> of the book's title paragraph. 
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>>You can include the <$filename> (name minus extension) or <$fullfilename> building block, but that's the FM chapter file name. It may or may not get translated into the PDF file name when you create the PDFs of the two books as specified above -- I'm not sure. Try it. Or create a cross-reference format specifically for xrefs to a particular book, with a definition something like: "section <$paranum> in MyOtherBook" 
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>>HTH, and sorry for the vagueness and uncertainty. Maybe somebody else can confirm, clarify, or correct as needed. :-)
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