<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Yep, the file I'm importing to has no structure. I'm going to try adding it and then importing again.<br><br></div>As to why, the highly condensed Readers Digest version is that the company was moving to DITA using Frame, DITA-FMx, and a CCMS called Vasont. Then we got bought. My engineers wanted to be able to edit the files while I was on vacation, amongst other things, so someone higher up in the chain of command demanded we pull the files out of structured and into unstructured, which is where they are. The last time I had to do this, I jerked the XML file with the cross-references out.<br><br></div>The spreadsheets, however, are still being converted into XML files because it's a perl script which can write XML just fine but knows nothing of FM binary or even MIF. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Scott Prentice <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sp14@leximation.com" target="_blank">sp14@leximation.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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It's likely breaking because the cross-refs are linking to
"elements" in the original files, then when you paste into an
unstructured file, there are no elements to link to. You'd need
to run some process before pasting into the unstructured file
which iterates over all cross-refs and relinks them to paras or
markers instead of elements.<br>
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I know you said not to ask .. but I'm not sure why you're
converting the structured files into unstructured files. It's OK
to have a book that contains both types of files (may not be a
"best practice" but should work). As long as you're dealing with
FM binary files, not XML files, you can mix and match as needed.
Have you tried just adding the structured files to the book? You
will need to enable the structured interface in FM in order to
do this, but that should not have any adverse effect on your
files. It's perfectly fine to edit unstructured files in the
structured interface.<br>
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We have Excel spreadsheets that we convert to XML files
using a script. The script also creates a ditamap for
all the files and creates an XML file that contains a
table that links to all the individual XML files.<br>
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We use DITAFMx to convert the ditamap and XML files to a
single FM file (still in structured). At this point, the
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Here's the tricky part. I then import (by copy) the newly
created FM files into an UNSTRUCTURED FM file (because
that's what the rest of the book is in, and no, this is not
currently an option to change, don't even ask, it's a MESS),
which is opened in FM with the structured interface so that
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As soon as I copy those files into the container
(unstructured) file, the xrefs break. I need those xrefs to
NOT break, and I don't have time to relink 500 or so xrefs
every time I create this book.<br>
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<div>I've tried this on the FM install on my desktop, which uses
the structured interface but is NOT in a DITA/structured
environment, and the FM install on a server, which uses the
structured interface and IS in a DITA/Structured environment.
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If I open the files on their own, they're fine. If I import
them into the unstructured document, the links go bye-bye and
I can't regenerate them.<br>
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<div>I'm beyond frustrated. Any clues would be appreciated.<br>
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