Re: Save as MIF *required* to resolve conditional xrefs

[hedley_finger@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Sean:

Well, what on earth was I trying to say!

 I think the brain forgot to tell the fingers that, if you have applied
conditions to source AND destination, and they are both made hidden or
visible, then ignore any false unresolved cross-refs in the Book Error Log.
It tends to somehow see the source (even when hidden) but not the
destination (when also hidden) and reports a broken ref.

Check the generated unresolved cross-references report and, if not listed
there, it ain't broke.  But you certainly do not have to save to MIF.

Hedley

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                    Sean Brierley                                                                                                    
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                                         Subject:     Re: Save as MIF *required* to resolve conditional xrefs                        
                    04/12/2002                                                                                                       
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If the source and the destination of a cross-reference
are not the same condition, and you turn off the
destination, isn't the source then broken? For
example, it refers to a page on which the destination
no longer appears.

Cheers,

Sean


--- hedley_finger@myob.com.au wrote:
>
> Sean:
>
> Conditions need not be applied to cross-reference
> sources and destinations.
> I have told my group to ignore any unresolved
> cross-reference messages in
> the Book Error Log.  Most of them turn out not to be
> errors at all.
> Instead we add an unresolved cross-references index
> to our book file -- it
> reports only truly broken cross-references.
>
> Regards,
> Hedley
>
> --
> Hedley Finger
> Technical Communications/Technical communicator and
> FrameMaker mentor
> MYOB Australia <http://www.myob.com.au/>
> P.O. box 371   Blackburn VIC 3130   Australia
> 12 Wesley Court   Tally Ho Business Park   East
> Burwood VIC 3151
> Australia
> <mailto:hedley_finger@myob.com.au>
> Tel. +61 3 9222 9992 x 7421,   Mob. (cell) +61 412
> 461 558
>
> (C) MYOB Limited 2002
>
>
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>
>
>
>
> This has been noted on the Adobe User to User
> Forums.
>
> But, I think it might get more notice here.
>
> Am I one of few who has the following problem with
> FM7p576?
>
> 1) Create a book with chapters, IX, and TOC.
> 2) Create some Xrefs.
> 3) Tag some destinations of those Xrefs with a
> condition and turn off the condition.
> 4) Generate the book. A righteous error log is
> created.
> 5) Make the source of all broken xrefs the same
> condition as the destination.
> 6) Turn off the condition book-wide.
> 7) Generate the book. The error log displays the
> same
> broken links--this is incorrect. Clicking hypertext
> to
> see what link is broken gets you the first page in
> the
> affected chapter.
>
> The fix is to:
>
> 1) Open all affected chapters, which are those that
> show up in the error log.
> 2) Save each as MIF and close each (closing might be
> unnecessary).
> 3) Open each MIF you just created and save it as an
> FM
> binary file, overwriting the existing one.
> 4) Generate the book. There will be no more errors.
>
> This is extremely time consuming and annoying.
> Submitted for your consideration.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sean
>
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