Dreamweaver-style tool to keep track of links and filename changes in DITA?

Hi Elisa...

The simple answer is .. don't rename your files. Come up with a file naming scheme that won't encourage you to do that. I'm assuming that you're renaming files because the file name is based on the topic title? If you really want to have files named based on the topic title, try to generalize rather than match the title exactly. It's likely that the basic concept of the topic hasn't changed even if you revise the title .. create the file name from the concept of the content rather than the exact title.

OR .. you might also consider naming files from the topic's ID (assuming it's unique). I know this can sound scary, but since there are so many more files now, it's really hard to locate anything by looking for the right file name. It's much better to open the associated map and them double-click the topicref to open the file. It's like opening a FM book (root map) and opening the chapter file (sub map) and locating the topic in the chapter.

DITA-FMx does have a Reference Report command that lets you locate unresolved references, as well as a great Search in Files command that can help to locate files based on elements and attributes (and their values). I'm sure there are other tools that let you locate broken references .. but those would run outside of FrameMaker.

Cheers,

…scott